[SEDXC] More Notes on 40M

[Tommy]

This certainly seems to continue for this year also. Between about 
6:30 to 7:15 am, I have been working both Asia and some western Eu 
stations with pretty decent regularity for the past three to four weeks.

Tom - W4BQF


At Friday 03:30 PM 12/23/2005, you wrote:
>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
>
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>-----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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