[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for January 13th & 14th, 2008

[Kevin Rock]

I gauge the conditions by the signal reports I receive from all the stations I work.  It is not guess work.  It is solid fact from what is occuring on the air.  I use the same radio and the same antenna to glean these results.  Conditions were better for the two nets today than they have been in some time.  The sun threw a coronal mass ejection at us which caused aurorae.  This makes the ionosphere better for propagation.  Simple physics nothing magical.
   Kevin.  KD5ONS

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>From: G3YMC <dave at davesergeant.com>
>Sent: Jan 14, 2008 2:28 AM
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for January 13th & 14th, 2008
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>Kevin Rock wrote:
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>>    I read the sun was acting up and between nets read about aurora in
>> Scandinavia.  Thus our conditions seem to have improved through the action
>> of the sun.  Now that we are starting upward again that will occur more
>> frequently.  I am glad of that since working through the very bottom of
>> the cycle was getting tiring!  
>> 
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>Last week's sunspot from the next cycle does indeed show the start of the
>next cycle, but you won't see any real improvement until 2010 at the
>earliest, maybe later. That was a single spot, later ones were still from
>the last cycle. The sunspot number at the moment is zero, conditions
>basically flat, yesterday's disturbance not caused by spots at all. Any
>feeling that you had good conditions was just in the mind...
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>73 Dave G3YMC
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