[Elecraft] Propagation

[stan levandowski]

Well, science provides predictions and suggests outcomes but I'm still a 
hopeless romantic who tunes the bands in spite of the numbers.  Tonight 
I found a completely dead 20M band at 0220Z except for a single CW QSO 
in progress between WB6UIA (QRZ says Wyoming) and XE2HOE in Baja 
California (La Paz).  When they were finished, I gave XE2HOE a call and 
got a 579.  He was a steady S9 and the guy in Wyoming was S6.


I live in NY, my antenna is a 67' doublet in my attic and my rig is a 
KX2 and it was running at 5 watts (I'm 100% CW and QRP). 


Afterward, I tuned the band again but heard nothing.  Guess everyone 
read the prop stats and turned off their radios....


73, Stan WB2LQF




On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 09:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> There have been a string of M-class flares for the last 30 hours or 
> so. Initial ones were in the M.8-M.9 range, recent ones somewhat 
> smaller.  A was 8, Kp was 3 earlier this afternoon which wouldn't 
> normally suggest terrible conditions, but I guess if the ionization is 
> already very weak, any disturbance can have a large effect.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
> - www.cqp.org
>
> On 7/24/2016 6:28 PM, Kurt Cramer wrote:
>> Today was the most difficult Elacraft SSB net I have ever seen. Two
>> nets were running at the same time.. One on the East coast, the other
>> on the west coast! They couldn’t hear each other. About half past the
>> hour I started hearing Eric in Chicago here in Arizona. I guess there
>> were a couple of solar flares.
>>
>> 73 Kurt W7QHD
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