[CQ-Contest] say it ain't so!

Andrei Stchislenok asnp3d at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 21:53:13 EDT 2007


Well, not a shiny news, however...
I remember fall of year 1982. That was a middle of "solar Cycle 21,
which started in June 1976 and lasted 10 years and 3 months".
At that time, I was UC2AFZ in Minsk, Belarus, USSR. I had 5 watts
input transciever (EFIR-M).
Maybe 3 watts output.
I installed 2 elements home made Quad on the roof of 5 story building where
I lived at that time.
Guess what? I worked VK, ZL, W1-W0, Africa, South America... I worked them
every evening coming from work. It was Not an experiement; I just did not
have anything else on 10 meters - only 3 watts output. Funny stuff, hugh...
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OK, at this time, what they say:
 "the number of sunspots in the next solar cycle (cycle 24) would be reduced
by roughly half"
No problem, I will be using 10 watts output radio, in order to work all the
same DX's!
Let's be optimistic. The worst case scenario - we go to EchoLink, hi.

73's Andrei EW1AR-NP3D (ex UC2AFZ in solar Cycle 21)

2007/10/17, Eric Hilding <b38 at hilding.com>:
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> David, K1TTT, shared:
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> >http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1735258
> <http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1735258&from=rss>
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> Hmmm.it may be a longgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg Winter.in more ways than
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> I read somewhere that there have been several times in history when an
> anticipate "next cycle" never happened and it was dudsville for 11 years.
> Please, NOT THIS TIME, Mr. Sun !!!
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> 73 & GLITCOMs.
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> Rick, K6VVA
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