[OKDXA] YK9G Propagation

John Geiger n5ten at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 11 11:51:36 EDT 2008


Why is it that people only go to counties I need (like
YK, FR/G, BS7) at the sunspot minimum.  I think the
path from OK will be better for VK9W, fortunately.

73s John AA5JG

--- N5PA <n5pa at n5pa.com> wrote:

> Coy:
> 
> You had better go and check your coax, someone might
> have "Pinned" your
> coax, HiHi!  The Solar Flux is down to 68 so
> propagation is not good at all.
> The best band for you to work YK9G is 40 meters
> between 0030Z and 0330Z.
> 
> I attaching a propagation table below from your QTH
> to Syria.  It does not
> look good at all. I hope you guys can pick them up
> on the bands you need but
> conditions are not in your favor.  I would love to
> get a lot of band fills
> myself. I only have it confirmed on 40 CW.  But I do
> not think I will have
> much of a chance with my "BB-Gun Station".  Good
> Hunting!
> 
> 73,
> Alan, N5PA 
> 
> 
>   W6ELProp Short-Path Prediction for 04/11/2008
>  TERMINAL A: 35.39 N  97.97 W  N5OK              
> Sunrise/Set: 1208/0057 UTC
> Bearing
>  to B:  35.7 deg
>  TERMINAL B: 34.00 N  38.00 E  Syria             
> Sunrise/Set: 0306/1552 UTC
> Bearing
>  to A: 325.0 deg
>  SSN:   6.2  Flux:  68.0  K: 2           THIS IS A
> POLAR PATH
> Path 
> Length: 11045 km
>                                   SIGNAL LEVELS IN
> dB ABOVE 0.5 µV
>  UTC   MUF    3.6 MHz   7.1 MHz  10.1 MHz  14.1 MHz 
> 18.1 MHz  21.2 MHz
> 24.9 MHz  28.3 MHz
>  0000 11.0       8 A      16 A      25 B      24 D
>  0030 11.0      19 A      30 A      27 B      25 D
>  0100 10.9      17 A      30 A      28 B      26 D
>  0130 10.5      30 A      31 A      29 B
>  0200 10.2      31 A      32 A      29 B
>  0230 11.1      31 B      32 A      29 A      26 D
>  0300 12.1      25 A      30 A      28 A      26 D
>  0330 13.2       3 A      31 A      27 A      25 C
>  0400 13.8       9 A      19 A      26 A      24 C  
>    23 D
>  0430 13.1      -5 A      11 A      26 A      23 C  
>    22 D
>  0500 12.0                 0 A      24 A      22 D
>  0530 11.0                 4 A      10 B      21 D
>  0600  9.7                -2 A       7 C
>  0630  8.5                -8 A
>  0700  8.2                           4 D
>  0730  8.0                           1 D
>  0800  7.9                          -2 D
>  0830  7.8
>  0900  7.8
>  0930  7.9
>  1000  8.8
>  1030  9.9
>  1100 11.0                                     3 D
>  1130 12.2                                     2 D
>  1200 13.3                                     0 D
>  1230 13.9                                    -1 D
>  1300 14.5                                    -1 D  
>    12 D
>  1330 14.5                                     7 B  
>    12 D
>  1400 15.1                                     7 B  
>    12 D
>  1430 15.6                                     7 A  
>    12 D
>  1500 16.1                                     8 A  
>    12 D      14 D
>  1530 16.5                                    -1 B  
>    13 D      14 D
>  1600 16.9                                     0 A  
>    13 C      14 D
>  1630 17.3                                     3 A  
>    14 C      15 D
>  1700 17.6                                     4 A  
>    14 C      15 D
>  1730 17.9                                     4 A  
>    15 C      16 D
>  1800 18.2                                     4 A  
>    15 B      16 D
>  1830 18.5                                     5 A  
>    16 B      17 D
>  1900 18.6                                     6 A  
>    17 B      17 D
>  1930 18.4                                     7 A  
>    17 B      18 D
>  2000 17.6                          -1 A       8 A  
>    18 C      18 D
>  2030 16.8                           2 A       9 B  
>    18 C      18 D
>  2100 15.9                           5 A      21 A  
>    19 D      19 D
>  2130 14.7                -7 A       3 A      22 B  
>    20 D
>  2200 13.6                -1 A       7 A      20 C  
>    20 D
>  2230 12.8                 4 A      10 A      21 D
>  2300 11.9                10 A      14 B      22 D
>  2330 11.2      -6 A      11 A      26 A      23 D
>  Availabilities  A: 75 - 100%  B: 50 - 75%  C: 25 -
> 50%  D: 1 - 25%
>  Signal levels suppressed if below -10 dB relative
> to 0.5 µV or if predicted
> availabi
> lity is zero
> 
> 
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