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Tad,
I can't get that Canadian URL to work.
TNX, Chas, W1CG
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> 1. ARLP002 Propagation de K7RA (W1AW@arrl.org)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:54:15 -0500
>From: W1AW@arrl.org
>Subject: [Propagation] ARLP002 Propagation de K7RA
>To: propagation@contesting.com
>Message-ID: <200601131607.k0DG7BRY003404@linux11676.dn.net>
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>SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP002
>ARLP002 Propagation de K7RA
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>ZCZC AP02
>QST de W1AW
>Propagation Forecast Bulletin 2 ARLP002
> >From Tad Cook, K7RA
>Seattle, WA January 13, 2006
>To all radio amateurs
>
>SB PROP ARL ARLP002
>ARLP002 Propagation de K7RA
>
>Geomagnetic conditions have been very, very quiet. This week has
>seen many periods when the K index, both planetary and mid-latitude,
>was 0 or 1. The average planetary/mid-latitude K index this week
>dropped from 5.4/5.1 (last week) to 3.3/3.4, respectively.
>
>Of course, this low in the solar cycle, it is not surprising that
>sunspot numbers and solar flux dropped also. Average daily sunspot
>numbers dropped by 35 points from last week to 14.7, and solar flux
>was down 7.5 points to an average of 79.4.
>
>Over the next week expect these conditions to stay the same, with
>possibly some slightly unsettled geo-activity on January 16.
>
>Users of Canada's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory data
>(such as me) were caught off-guard this week when our source of
>thrice-daily solar flux readings seemed to disappear from the net.
>
>By Googling around and using a freeware program called Xenu Link
>Sleuth (a handy desktop web spidering application, which you can
>also find via a Google search) I finally discovered the new home of
>the Current Flux Archive. It now appears at
>http://www.drao-ofr.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/icarus/www/current.txt.
>The observatory's servers seem to have moved from drao.nrc.ca to the
>much longer domain shown in the URL.
>
>More 10 meter mail arrived this week. Glenn Stewart, N7NRA of Mesa,
>Arizona reminds us to check for beacons between 28.2 and 28.3 MHz.
>Glenn says, "If you hear beacons, there is a very good likelihood
>that you can raise a PSK31 contact or two by calling CQ on PSK at
>28.120. If you get lucky and find half a dozen or so PSK signals at
>28.120, and if some of them are strong, head for 28.345 - 28.350 and
>call CQ on Phone. Chances are excellent that you'll raise a phone
>contact or two. The band's not dead. The problem is that everyone is
>listening. No one is calling CQ. Give it a try!"
>
>Also in Arizona, and on 10 meters, is Hank Pfizenmayer, K7HP in
>Phoenix, about 15 miles northwest of N7NRA. He said that on December
>26, 2005 on 10 meters from 2137-2220z he worked KP2L, KP4DKE, S9SS,
>MM0SLH, VE3FGU and ZL1BYZ. The next day he worked ZL2BSJ, ZL1BYZ and
>ZL3KR. He says, "I listen just about every day to the 10 meter
>beacons, usually a couple times at least, and it would be easier to
>list days that I do not hear a beacon somewhere. I have found I can
>call CQ on CW for long periods with no activity at all even though I
>am hearing beacons all over the east coast."
>
>Bob Skaggs, KB5RX in Santa Fe, New Mexico says he has been listening
>to 17 meters later, and observed, "When local sunset occurs, the
>band goes dead within 5 minutes. From 10 over 9 to nothing in less
>than 7 minutes. Not like when the sunspot activity is high where the
>band slowly fades."
>
>If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers,
>email the author at, k7ra@arrl.net.
>
>For more information concerning radio propagation and an explanation
>of the numbers used in this bulletin see the ARRL Technical
>Information Service propagation page at,
>http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. An archive of past
>propagation bulletins is found at, http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/.
>
>Sunspot numbers for January 5 through 11 were 23, 24, 11, 11, 11, 11
>and 12 with a mean of 14.7. 10.7 cm flux was 83.4, 82, 79.2, 78.2,
>77.6, 77.8, and 77.3, with a mean of 79.4. Estimated planetary A
>indices were 3, 6, 5, 4, 2, 1 and 2 with a mean of 3.3. Estimated
>mid-latitude A indices were 3, 6, 6, 5, 1, 2 and 1, with a mean of
>3.4.
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