[Elecraft] Solar Cycle

[Bob Nielsen]

Also limited to a narrow portion of the bands, not where the DX normally 
hung out.

I was a Novice in 1952-53, at the bottom of a cycle.  In fact, at the 
peak of each cycle since then I have not been on the air (timing is 
everything) or was putting up with a stealth antenna system.  Still, I 
have been close enough to experience some reasonably good propagation.

Bob, N7XY

On 7/23/16 2:14 PM, Mark Bayern wrote:
> ... and a _one_ year license!
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Mark Bayern <mark at mlb.net> wrote:
>> So far no one has mentioned the Novice limitations. 75 watts input to
>> the final, crystal controlled.  (At least that is what I remember in
>> the mid 60's.)
>>
>> Mark  AD5SS
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Bill W4ZV <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The peak was actually late December 1957 (Solar Flux = 375 and sunspots =
>>>> 355).
>>>> I was very lucky to be QRV then and made the first Novice DXCC:
>>>> http://www.novice.bappy.com/about_21.html
>>>>
>>> ============
>>> Yep, those were legendary days. I too made Novice DXCC, shortly after Bill.
>>> He was KN4RID in those days. I worked my 100th right after he got his, but
>>> I stuck my cards in a drawer and didn't send them in for over a decade.
>>> Finally I dug 'em out and got my DXCC certificate, issued under my novice
>>> call, KN0LTB. It's still up on the wall.There was one other novice who did
>>> it, but I can't remember who it was. The bands were open practically 24
>>> hours and 15 meter CW, which was where you had to be as a novice, was
>>> hopping all the time. You could hear scientists from all over using calls
>>> ending in -IGY, standing for international geophysical year. They traveled
>>> to far-flung places to take readings on propagation, weather patterns,
>>> aurora, and anything else they expected to be affected by the record levels
>>> of solar activity. Those were the days of phone patches (no Skype), and 15
>>> phone had a constant flow of patched conversations from scientist phoning
>>> back to the home folks. Even in those days there was SSB activity, mostly
>>> coming from 10 watt phasing exciters. Other popular rigs included the
>>> Viking Ranger and the Heath DX-100. The tube of the day was the 6146. The
>>> older hams who mentored me had home-brew rack-mounted monstrosities,
>>> plug-in coils, something like a pair of 250TH tubes modulated by another
>>> pair of 250THs, power transformer as big as a wastebasket.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Tony KT0NY
>>>
>>>>
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