Topband: Does this solar minimum seem a little more extreme than usual?

[Don Kirk]

160 meters was fantastic overnight (Sunday night/Monday morning) from the
Midwest USA into Europe.  Signals peaking 20 to 35 db over my noise floor
from big stations that normally run 6 to 12 db over my noise floor when
conditions are good.

It was one of those special nights that only happens a handful of times
each season (if that) from my location.

73,
Don (wd8dsb)

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:25 PM Richard McLachlan <richard at rodsley.net>
wrote:

> Well, the band was open albeit briefly this morning from the UK to ZL.
> When I used to operate in G/ZL tests in the early 60s that was thought
> impossible at this time of year. I can’t speak for the intervening years
> but other than at the Equinoxes there is no grey line path between the two.
>
> So something must be working well.
>
> Richard
> G3OQT
>
> > On 16 Dec 2019, at 19:16, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > We've had 92 percent spotless days since May 19th.
> >
> >
> > The last time this happened was more than 100 years ago
> > when there were 93% spotless days from Feb 28 to Oct 24, 1913
> >
> >
> >
> books.google.com/books?id=SWdCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=daily+sunspot+number+1912&source=bl&ots=p-7Rhel4dI&sig=ACfU3U0YMpFQ0tdADTYYhiyI-qcWOWdEPQ&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM-s7o6rrmAhWQxVkKHbaZCHAQ6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=daily%20sunspot%20number%201912&f=false
> >
> >
> > 73
> > Frank
> > W3LPL
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