[SEDXC] Fw: More Notes on 40M

[Keith LaBorde - K4KAL]

> Guys,
>
> You may want to download this program.
> It gives you some good information.
>
> http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo/
>
> Set up your QTH for Home Location.  Example: EM73qv
> Click on Auto-Update.
> Enjoy the results.
>
> Keith, K4KAL
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie at innotrac.com>
> To: <sedxc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 3:30 PM
> Subject: [SEDXC] More Notes on 40M
>
>
>> Just thought I would forward this email that Hal sent last year. It is 
>> the same time of year and we should expect similiar conditions..  The 
>> link still works.
>>
>> 73 Good DX
>>
>> Gordon N4LR
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hal Kennedy [mailto:halken at comcast.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:29 AM
>> To: SEDXC
>> Subject: [SEDXC] More Notes on 40M
>>
>>
>> Heard/worked on the dipoles before sunrise this AM:  DU, YB1A, VK, HK, 
>> JA,
>> OH, DL, GI, G and others.
>>
>> The last three are not errors - I was spotted in England at local Noon 
>> their
>> time.  The band was essentially open to everywhere at once (except 
>> Africa)
>> this morning.
>>
>> YB1A was S9 yesterday afternoon at our sunset.
>>
>> Most SEDXCers are familiar with gray line DXing, no doubt - but DXing 
>> just
>> above the MUF is a subject not discussed very often.  The MUF over 
>> Georgia
>> and off to the North East along the gray line has been running between 6 
>> and
>> 8 MHz for the past three days.  You can watch it at:
>>
>> http://solar.uleth.ca/solar/realtime.html
>>
>> Note the MUF just to the left of the gray line, wherever it might be when
>> you look.
>>
>> When operating at or just above the MUF, only very low angle signals will
>> 'skip,' resulting in unusually good SNR for long haul DX (closer-in noise
>> does not 'skip').  We are at the confluence of the Winter Solstice and 
>> that
>> part of the sunspot cycle where MUF before sunrise is around 6-7 MHz.
>> Meanwhile, K has been as low as 1 and no higher than 3 for the past three
>> days.  Translation:  This is about as good as 40 ever gets.  We may enjoy
>> this for another month or so if K stays low.  After that, it could be as
>> long as the next solar cycle upswing (10 years away) before we are back 
>> to
>> MUFs of 6-8 MHz on the gray line.
>>
>> If the MUFs go lower still, 80 and 160 will enjoy the improved SNR. 
>> JT1CO
>> was spotted on 80 this morning although I did not hear him.
>>
>> DX is.
>>
>> 73,
>> N4GG
>>
>>
>>
>>
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