The bands are also not as dead as everyone believes. Sure, conditions
aren't great but anytime people believe those online propagation report
pictures and then don't get on the air, there is one less station to talk
to. It's a death spiral - no one gets on their radio, so there is no one to
talk to, so no one gets on the radio, so there is no talk to...
Right now with a not really great antenna I can hear a handful of US
stations working the 10m contest. Get on the air and conditions will
magically improve.
Sean WA1TE
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 11:09 Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd@charter.net> wrote:
> Ugh. At least with these predictions, there is nowhere to go but up!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of
> > donovanf@starpower.net
> > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2018 12:50 AM
> > To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] At least four more years of solar minimum?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > NOAA updated its predictions for smoothed sunspot numbers and solar flux
> > through the end of 2022. As of last month, their predictions ended in
> > 2019.
> > Their prediction shows a smoothed sunspot number of 10 for December 2018,
> > declining to 2 in July 2020 through January 2021, then 1 during February
> > 2021 through January 2022, and 0 after that and through at least the end
> > of 2022.
> > www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
> > I hate predictions, especially about the future...
> > 73
> > Frank
> > W3LPL
> >
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