>
> But this was also sunspot maximum time?
>
> Any observations that over the pole path in the evening on 10 meters has
> happened during _the bottom_ of sunspot cycle? I can't remember any at least
> in CQWWCW or ARRL10 contests since 1986.
>
> http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/lists/geomag/7day_AK.txt
>
> interesting note:
> College N65 W102 40 3 3 5 5 5 6 5
> 3
>
> high latitude (A and) K indexes jump after Sunday morning, K peaking 6.
>
> 73, Timo OH1NOA
>
I wouldn't say we are at the bottom of the sunspot cycle yet. Sunday's
solar flux was 93, SSN 51. The 90 day moving average is around solar
flux = 85. A better question would be whether the night time pole path
from USA to Scandanavia on 10 meters has ever opened with a solar flux
less than 75 ?
73,
Steve, N2IC
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