[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report for July 10th & 11th, 2011

[Dave Sergeant]

On 10 Jul 2011 at 20:11, Kevin Rock wrote:

> According to  
> SpaceWeather.com there are many spots on the sun but they are not 
> improving propagation.  During the last few months I keep checking to
> see  if my antenna has fallen down.

Depends on what you class as 'many spots'. Most of them are minute 
specks and hardly visible to the eye. I use http://www.solarham.com/ 
which seems to give more accessible information than spaceweather.

Note that the current sunspot number of 67 does NOT mean there are 67 
spots. There are at present 27 spots in 4 groups - 4x10 + 27 = 67 - 
with most of them in one sprawling group 1247. The K index is shown as 
3, which is not good, and the solar wind speed is increasing, another 
bad sign.

I did have some fun in the IARU contest over the weekend, but not that 
much in the way of DX worked. Yes, there are times when I look outside 
to see if the antenna is still up...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com