Topband: Not so Boring report

Guy Olinger K2AV olinger at bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 8 17:08:21 EST 2012


Alas, will I never see the likes of 1957-58 ever again for working EU on 6M
using an "end-fed" window screen for an antenna?  On the other hand, now
that I have a couple really good trees to support 160m TX antenna, maybe I
don't care.  So conflicted...

73, Guy.

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/08/2012 12:52 PM, Tree wrote:
>
>>  It's very unusual to work the morning opening during
>> a sunspot maximum.
>>
>
> A solar flux of 97 is not what I would call a solar maximum. More like a
> bump in the new Mayan Minimum. Who knows what will happen on December 21 :)
> . Don't forget that in previous sunspot maximum's, we would go 3 or more
> years when the flux would never fall below 100 for even a day.
>
> This is good news for topbands enthusiasts, unless the Mayan prophecy....
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
>
>
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