[OKDXA] Deep Solar Minimum

[Brad Hedges]

Sounds like time to put up more Beverages and low band verticals, to me!

Brad
KM5MM


--- On Thu, 4/2/09, RGA <rga1k5sit at cebridge.net> wrote:

> From: RGA <rga1k5sit at cebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Deep Solar Minimum
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:33 PM
> Hi ya folks.
> 
> I know you all get this but I'm sending it 
> anyway. 
> 
> It's sad very sad!
> 
> Bob k5sit 73 
> 
> Space Weather News for April 2, 2009
> http://spaceweather.com
> 
> SPOTLESS SUNS:  Yesterday, NASA announced that the sun
> has plunged into the deepest solar minimum in nearly a
> century.  Sunspots have all but vanished and
> consequently the sun has become very quiet. In 2008, the sun
> had no spots 73% of the time, a 95-year low. In 2009,
> sunspots are even more scarce, with the "spotless rate"
> jumping to 87%.  We are currently experiencing a
> stretch of 25 continuous days uninterrupted by sunspots--and
> there's no end in sight.
> 
> This is a big event, but it is not unprecedented. Similarly
> deep solar minima were common in the late-19th and
> early-20th centuries, and each time the sun recovered with a
> fairly robust solar maximum.  That's probably what will
> happen in the present case, although no one can say for
> sure. This is the first deep solar minimum of the Space Age,
> and the first one we have been able to observe using modern
> technology.  Is it like others of the past?  Or
> does this solar minimum have its own unique characteristics
> that we will discover for the first time as the cycle
> unfolds?  These questions are at the cutting edge of
> solar physics.
> 
> You can monitor the progress of solar minimum with a new
> "Spotless Days Counter" on spaceweather.com.  Instead
> of counting sunspots, we're counting no sunspots. 
> Daily updated totals tell you how many spotless days there
> have been in a row, in this year, and in the entire solar
> cycle.  Comparisons to historical benchmarks put it all
> in perspective.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for data.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Redmon wrote:
> > Certainly agrees with my observations.
> >
> > 73, Bob K5SM