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Thing is...The low bands are as good as it gets right now.
It's not a total bummer. When the MUF drops low, just drop frequency. The low bands are in the best shape, in the low part of the cycle. Being it's winter in NA, it's prime time for the low bands...Right now. Being I prefer low bands to high, I'm glad the solar cycle is where it is... Need more frigid arctic wx to kill the lightning in the US...MK |
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Actually, last night local time here in California (about 6:00 to 7:00Z
2/4/05) the bands were pretty hot. 41m and 49m were positively hopping. Austria on 6155 was much better than usual. 31m was better than it has been. 60m was not so great (although a Peruvian 5 kW station was banging in nicely), but it was a tad late in the evening here for most of them. Bruce Jensen |
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"bpnjensen" wrote in message ups.com... Actually, last night local time here in California (about 6:00 to 7:00Z 2/4/05) the bands were pretty hot. Yes, 49 meter band jumping here in NE Oklahoma around 11:00 PM (central) or so. Rob Mills ~ |
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Last night (02-05)was better than it has been in weeks here in the Pacific
Northwest. Surprisingly good conditions - the best in two or three months. I've noticed a lot of day-to-day variation in conditions. When SW conditions are bad, I tend to switch to mediumwave. Or if I want to hear the BBC or VOA, go the web. Conditions generally over the next couple of years will only deteriorate as we get toward the bottom of the cycle, but there are still good days. |
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Stranger_On_The_Bus wrote:
Last night (02-05)was better than it has been in weeks here in the Pacific Northwest. Surprisingly good conditions - the best in two or three months. I've noticed a lot of day-to-day variation in conditions. When SW conditions are bad, I tend to switch to mediumwave. Or if I want to hear the BBC or VOA, go the web. Conditions generally over the next couple of years will only deteriorate as we get toward the bottom of the cycle, but there are still good days. It depends on what bands you use. At solar minimum the lower shortwave bands can be very good while propagation on the higher ones tends to be poor to nonexistant. The downside of this effect is band crowding. The broadcasters have less spectrum to use and must therefore use more of the lower bands. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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