dave wrote:
Gregg wrote:
On Dec 17, 2:00 pm, SC Dxing wrote:
I'm flipping through the ham bands and it looks like they are firing
up big time tonight. They are forecasting a bunch of snow and that
usually always gets them fired up.
Ha- yeah I know what you mean - I've been listening also.
There are also sunspots.

Bob Dobbs wrote:

Yeah right, like those sunspots affect anything at night!

Well, they do.

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

Just cuz it's dark in your back yard doesn't mean the other side of the
world is dark.

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.