THE SKY IS FALLING !!!!!!

A few years ago, the talking heads were predicting this solar cycle would be a “Maunder Minimum” like we experienced from 1645 to 1715. OK, “we” weren’t exactly hanging around then and didn’t experience it, but it is well documented. You will recall the prediction suggested we should sell our radio equipment and take up golf or other hobbies that waste oxygen. Several drank the Kool-Aid, bought into the hype, and gloom and doom prevailed.

Several ADXA folks decided to simply wait and see, knowing very well in today’s society predictions are based mostly of what people “think” and not what they believe based on factual data. Our patience paid off as we have had some amazing propagation on the HF bands and several of you have a new one(s) in the log. Now that we have experienced the first part of Solar Cycle 25 what do folks who really know propagation believe will occur going forward?

I can’t address that question directly but Carl, K9LA, can and he will be the special guest speaker at our 2^nd Quarterly Meeting via Zoom this Saturday, June 15, at 1:00 PM. You may access the meeting via the following Zoom link beginning at 12:30 PM:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84904878648?pwd=Pn29opUr3khHvYjVrjCj0Lz2xg7PFW.1

Meeting ID: 849 0487 8648

Passcode: 689199

The sky isn’t falling, I’m not Chicken Little, I don’t drink Kool-Aid, and I don’t play golf so I’m anxious to hear what we can expect in the world of DX in the next few years because I still love to “GET IN THERE & WORK ‘EM !!”.

C U Saturday via Zoom.

73 Joel W5ZN