[CQ-Contest] sunspots

[Michael Tope]

Rick,

I think the monthly smoothed number for January was 58 (see 
http://www.ips.gov.au/Solar/1/5). I am not sure that the number you 
reported "24" (where did you get this - NW7US's site?) is a monthly 
smoothed number (unless its a continuous running average over the last 
30 days). The following graph shows the daily numbers superimposed over 
the monthly SSNs. As you can see the daily numbers have huge 
fluctuations (10:1 in some cases) so perhaps all is not lost:

http://sidc.oma.be/html/wolfjmms.html

73, Mike W4EF...............

On 2/8/2012 1:21 PM, Rick Dougherty NQ4I wrote:
> Hi all...have the sunspots peaked and are they gone? The SSN number is
> running at 24...a really low number...should be near 100 or
> above...have we seen the peak of the cycle?
>
> I still have seen propagation on 10m and 15m to EU but short openings
> and very limited in scope.
>
> de Rick NQ4I
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