[CQ-Contest] At least four more years of solar minimum?

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

Ugh. At least with these predictions, there is nowhere to go but up!

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> 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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