[50mhz] E skip question

[Peter Markavage]

Some believe that Sporadic E ionization can be generated by electrical
storms, electrical disturbances in the E layer due to very fast movement
of air, cloud to cloud ionizations due to electrical storms; all which
can move along the jet stream. So maybe, the next time there is a
Sporadic E opening between location points a and b, one might want to
check what storms are moving along the jet stream. I would suspect that
Sporadic E propagation is more weather related than anything else.

But heck, what do I know; I'm a marketing guy.
Pete, wa2cwa

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:21:04 -0000 "John Geiger" <ne0p at lcisp.com> writes:
> When reading the most recent World Above 50mhz Column in QST, some E 
> skip from the September VHF contest was discussed.  The big E skip 
> opening in that contest was discussed, and Gene, W3ZZ, made this 
> comment "The first thing to notice is that being farther north, the 
> openings are nowhere near as good as for the southern stations."  I 
> have also heard in mentioned before that Eskip is better further 
> south.
> 
> Is this true?  Are Eskip conditions better in the southern US as 
> compared with further north? If so, why?  Eskip doesn't seem to be 
> related to the F layer, which is better further south.  And Europe, 
> which is further north than much of the US, seems to get much better 
> 2 meter Eskip than we do.  Does it have to do with the location of 
> the magnetic north pole?
> 
> 73s John NE0P
> Moderator: Ray Brown, KB0STN