[Elecraft] Solar Cycle

[Grant Youngman]

Or even DX on 15 at 2-3 o'clock in the morning.  My little DX-40 worked a lot of DX in those days -- phone and CW -- and it rarely mattered what time of day it was. 

I don't think conditions have been anywhere close to that since ....

Grant NQ5T 

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> On Jul 22, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin at ve3syb.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 16-07-21 10:43 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> I was first licensed in 1955 and cycle 19 (the granddaddy of them all) was
>> on the rise.
>> Those were the times when you could work the world with 10 watts on 10
>> meters during the daytime hours.
> 
> The bands would have been a lot quieter back in the 50's as there was neither the population density nor the amount of technology to pollute the airwaves with stray RF signals.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers!
> 
> Kevin.
> 
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