[Elecraft] Solar Cycles

[Peter LaBissoniere]

Historically solar minimums have been a time of reflection and introspection. They are the universes way of nudging us to open ourselves to different things; to charity, selflessness, service to others in a way that cleanses the body of harmful RF energy. A time to sell all of our ham gear and donate the proceeds to charity. Got ya! Nah, I'm trying to figure out how to replace my 40/80 fan dipoles with yagis and install a phased receive array for 160 to complement my existing inverted L. To accomplish this it would work best to move to a qth with a few more acres and get away from the dang commercial BC antenna 200 yards away.

73,
Pete - KW9E

> On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Mike Furrey <mikefurrey at att.net> wrote:
> 
> I will do my darnedest to stick around 'till have the sun's life has been reached ... or at least to go fishing with Leroy.
> 73, Mike WA5POK
> 
> 
>    On Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:27 PM, lmarion <lmarion at mt.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> When stars reach middle age, half of ~10 billion for our sun,they phase into 
> a state where there are no sunspots for the rest of their hydrogen burning 
> life.
> So the sunspots cycle ( which is ~22 years by the way,  it is based on 
> sunspot polarization, ~11 years is half of the cycle. ), will disappear 
> completely.  I did see
> a sunspot group when I looked at the sun in Hydrogen alpha,  so not today.
> Amateur astronomy and radio are the coolest hobbies,  with fishing a close 
> third.
> 
> 
> 
> Leroy  AB7CE, amateur radio operator and astronomer and Montana fly 
> fisherman
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Dauer, Edward
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 2:32 PM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] Solar Cycles
> 
> For those who have been concerned whether the solar cycle would reverse this 
> time, take heart.  An article in The Economist for Jan. 21  2017 (at page 
> 67) reports that a study of fossilized vegetation from the Permian period 
> about 290 million years ago evidences a solar cycle back then of 10.6 years, 
> easily  within the statistical variability around today’s 11.2.
> 
> Take that, Annie and Walter Maunder.
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
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