No it aint that simple. In 2012 the supposed 'peak', the sun was mostly BLANK !
So if you can put one and one together; there couldn't be 125 sunspots.
The HEAD of the solar dept. from NASA said also to underline this with:
"The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar MINIMUM in nearly a century." End quote.
I know all to well that radio amateurs don't want to think outside the box, but technicaly
they changed the count from 'human eye' to computer count. You and i know that a
computer sees always something. A fraction darker pixel etc.

Every astronomer ? Well look for 'dead astronomers' and you will be horrified.
And what about the physical evidence ? For how long is 80 mtrs useless now ?
We live in a solarpeak ?? How many have you experienced ??

These shills here want to suppress any rumor about 'magnetic pole' reversal due to this:
http://poleshift.ning.com among others.

It is that serious folks.


Sure, it's simple. You claimed the sunspot counts were fudged. It's
very simple with a helioscope to count the number of sunspots.

Yes, the sun may be going through another Maunder Minimum - that is
unknown at this time, and scientists don't completely understand what's
occurring. But that does NOT mean the counts are incorrect.

Radio amateurs constantly "think outside the box". That's where
innovation occurs, and hams have done a lot of innovation. And computer
counting is not just one shot - there are many pictures of the sun taken
every minute; a single "dark pixel" will quickly be filtered out.
However, that's another one of your straw man arguments and shows just
how little you know - with the magnification used, a single sunspot
covers much more than one pixel.

As for the magnetic pole reversal - that's no secret, and has been
discussed quite extensively in many publications. But that's not
uncommon; it happens at intervals of 100K to 1M years, with an average
of 450K years. Since the last reversal was 780K years ago, we are
overdue. Just google "geomagnetic pole reversal" and you'll get all
kinds of hits.

It's never wiped out life on earth, or even had a major effect on life.
It just changed the direction of compasses. And since a shift takes 1K
to 10K years, I doubt my compass will be pointing south in my lifetime.

You REALLY need to put your tin hat back on! You're only showing your
gross ignorance.

And BTW - I've been a ham for over 46 years. YOU figure out how many
solar peaks I've been through (hint: they occur about every 11 years).

But then we also know you're not a ham.


Hi Jerry,

I too am an old duffer. I got my license in 1955. I am 71 now and still
in good health. Has to be some kind of miracle there for my wife and I
both to still be in good health.

Conspiracy theories are very popular and some who have little education
jump on any that come along. I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories
myself. However, I still question the Warren report. I believe there
were other forces at work beyond Oswald. A lot of nutters confuse
magnetic pole reversal with actual reversal of our rotational poles. Of
course that would be catastrophic and makes much more interesting reading.

Anyway, back to ham radio. I have certainly seen a lot of different
propagation conditions on many bands in my lifetime. I can remember when
I was 12 and could use very low power, read that as 10 watts on CW and
talk to the world. My equipment was very primitive. My first receiver
was a Knight kit space spanner. A regenerative receiver. I had to mow
lawns and clear brush to buy my equipment or the parts to build
equipment and it was a lot of work just gathering 10 dollars together. I
still remember when I did my first single transistor radio. The
transistor was a Raytheon CK722 that cost me 7 dollars. I treasured that
little germanium transistor like it was gold.

When I was 13, I discovered how to make alcohol in my home built still.
I found that far more profitable. I worked my way up to a Halicrafters
SX100 and a Multi-Elmac transmitter with a home made power supply. I
felt like this was the Cadillac of ham gear at the time. Unfortunately,
after a couple of years, the sheriff discovered who was selling all the
moonshine in our county. I was lucky. I just got yelled at and had to
sink all my moonshine equipment in our lake. I was devastated. I only
thought of myself as an entrepreneur. There I was 14, and jobless. I
finally got a job driving truck when I turned 16 after school to support
my rather expensive habit. I was kinda like a junky. There was always
more equipment to want and buy. When I finally graduated from high
school I had more equipment than was ever necessary to operate on the
ham bands. I was an obsessed teenager.

W8EZI formerly WN7EZI