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Old December 19th 09, 06:12 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Joe from Kokomo[_2_] Joe from Kokomo[_2_] is offline
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Default Hams are very active tonight with the snow forecast


Bob Dobbs wrote:


Yeah right, like those sunspots affect anything at night!


Joe from Kokomo wrote:


Otherwise, what's your explanation for the 1959/1960 sunspot peak when
20, 15 and 10 meters were open almost around the clock?


Bob Dobbs wrote:

Lingering ionospheric charges were present, that by the way aren't existent in
today's solar lull, unless you're saying some recent snowstorm generated HAM
activity is related to a solar activity spike half a century ago.


Nope, that was not the topic and I was not talking about a snowstorm or
ham activity. You *were* commenting on "sunspots at night" and I
responded to that with a classic historical example of how sunspots, if
there are any, could affect (your) propagation at night.