[OKDXA] Sunspots (and lack of them)

[Rick Vidmar - K9KK]

I hope you see a cycle like I and I'm sure Coy experienced in the late 50s..
I worked a friend of mine in Belgium using just a Heathkit VFO---probably a 
few tenths of a watt on 10M...
10M was open 24/7 with signals 40-60 db over 9 from all over the 
world.....Had I known better I would have recorded a lot of that
73  Rick K9KK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
To: <dx-is at yahoogroups.com>; <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:52 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] Sunspots (and lack of them)


>
> I have been through a couple of solar cycles, being first licensed in 1980 
> and getting bit by the DX bug in 1981. I have also seen a couple of solar 
> minimums, but have any of you seen a solar minimum this bad?  Seems like 
> the solar minimum started around late 2006 and 2 1/2 years later it is 
> still here!  Any idea as to what is going on or when the sunspots will 
> start appearing again?  Wish we could get a 2.5 to 3 year peak!
>
> 73s John AA5JG
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