Topband: low band propagation at solar min

[David Raymond]

I've only been active on Topband since 1987 but nothing has beat the 2008 
and 2009 seasons when NA topbanders were easily working Zones 17, 18, and 19 
both morning and night.  I remember commenting to some of the newer guys 
(who had been thinking it was always like that) telling them it was a 
rarity.  And, indeed, it has been as it hasn't happened since.  We'll see if 
it repeats itself in the next downswing.

73. . . Dave, W0FLS



>
> Carl K9LA:  " But in my opinion (and in the opinion of others) the deep 
> and
> long solar minimum between Cycles 23 and 24 (2006-2010) didn't live up to
> this axiom compared to the not-so-deep and not-so-long solar minimum 
> between
> Cycles 22 and 23 (1995-1997). It suggests that all solar minimums aren't 
> the
> same."
>