[Elecraft] No Sun Spot DX

[Tree]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:47:37PM -0400, W7is at aol.com wrote:

> I just leave the barefoot K2 monitoring the low end of 20M CW.   
> The propagation has just been amazing.   Where I work into Europe  almost
> at will all day long.     I am using a 2  ele Quad with a clear take off angle
> over fresh water here.  Which does help a great  deal.   But it still dosnt 
> explain the great prop without sun spots.   Anyone have an  ideas?  

A lot of people thing you need sunspots to have good propagation.  This is
certainly true if you are talking about 10 meters.

20 meters is a band that seems to do okay without sunspots.  As you go lower
in frequency, certainly by the time you get to 40 meters, the bands actually
seem to do better without them.  On 160 meters, this is the "sunspot peak"
from the perspective of openings from my QTH to Europe.  During the years
where there are lots of sunspots - you simply can't work Europe hardly 
ever.  Last week, I worked RA4LW on seven consecutive nights.

Tree N6TR
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