In article 1pCKc.6359$Zr.5016@okepread01, "Da Shadow"
wrote:

Most welcome -- but I forgot to mention that the SFI is all downhill from
now on -- to a minimum sometime in 2006.

Cycle 24 is predicted to peak in 2010.

Cycle 23 started in May 1996 and peaked around April 2000. so we are 4
years from the peak and 2 years from the bottom - more or less.

See URL:

http://www.dxlc.com/solar/solcycle.html
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"Sanjaya" wrote in message
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"Da Shadow" wrote...
A lay persons guide to Solar Flux Index

SFI = 60 Lousy - The Pitts
SFI = 80 Grim - Go to the lower bands
SFI = 100 Ah lookin better but don't write home bout it
SFI = 140 Now its cookin
SFI =180 WOW -- hello world
SFI = 280 Gandbusters a wet noodle antenna will do ya
SFI =300 My prayers have been answered

But depends on the frequency and the A and k indices as well.

See URL's
http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/summary.shtml

AND

http://members.cts.com/fort/w/wn6k/sf2.htm


Well, I was listening to Radio Japan this morning and it faded from S9
to S2 during a solar event indicated on this page. The frequency at that
time was 9535. I also had them on 11970 at about S6 pre event and lost
them altogether during the event.

The page updates about once a minute so you can watch the event in real
time and its effect on a broadcast like I did this morning.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/dregion.html

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