[80m] Propagation Predictors

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:15:41 -0700 (MST)

>From further north like we are in VE6 (53 degrees here) The A and K
do usually rule what we can work, but there are always exceptions. However
the low K lately brought the best short path and long path 80 conditions
in the last 24 hours that I have ever experienced.  Even managed several
contacts QRP with G and EI stations and G4PEL was worked QRP both ways. He
was good copy here.  The long path this morning stayed way past sunrise
and I was still (barely) hearing signals LP at 1700Z which is about 90
minutes past my sunrise.

Great fun.

73 Don
VE6JY

 On Sat, 19 Jan 2002,
Merv Stump wrote:

> Does anyone have any indices they watch which they believe are reliable
> predictors of propagation on 80 meters.  I have been watching the A and K
> index for years and frankly have seen no great correlation between that and
> what I work.  Recently I discovered
> http://www.sel.noaa.gov/rt_plots/dregion.html, which gives you a D Layer
> absorption level.  So far I still haven't found any great correlation here
> either,  but today the D layer absorption is the lowest I have seen it in 6
> weeks.  I'll be watching longpath at east coast sunset.  If anyone observes
> anything exciting  I hope you will post a note about it.
> 
> Merv
> 
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