[Lowfer] Were there no US stations on 137 KHz last night ???

[Scott Tilley]

Hi Andy

2200m activity closely follows the state of solar conditions and their 
affect on the ionosphere, just about everything the sun does actively 
degrades LF DX condx.  I just read John's comments and agree with him.  
There's little incentive to waste a lot of power on transmitting during 
times when all the indications point to poor conditions...

If you want to learn more see Alan Melia's website and read his work on 
the Dst index etc.
http://www.alan.melia.btinternet.co.uk/DstIndex.htm

Another good resource is my website which has monitors of distant DX 
stations on the LF band.  If you follow this daily you'll get a sense of 
the correlation between the Dst and other indicators and propagation.  I 
provide plots and links to the various 'preferred' references.

Magically you'll know what is in the heads of the 2200m experimenters as 
they decide whether to key up or not for the evening.

73 es GL
Scott
VE7TIL
http://www3.telus.net/sthed/argo/




On 2/16/2011 9:53 AM, Andy - KU4XR wrote:
> I started the evening looking for the guys across the pond on 136.177
> and as is my usual, nothing seen.. Then at 1 am EST I put the radio
> on 137.180 KHz with Spectran set to look from 137.180 down to 137.174
> and immediately started to see a carrier close to 137.178 KHz, and just
> assumed that it was Mitch - MP, and shut the monitor off for the night.
> Checking the captures this morning; the line at 178 turned out to be
> a solid carrier line all night.. and no other signals were seen..
> Either I had my radio grossly off frequency, or there was no one
> transmitting last night after 1 am ( 06:00 UTC ). Was anyone on ??
>
> Thanks and 73:
>
>
> Andy - KU4XR
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