[OKDXA] Sunspots (and lack of them)

[Alan Clark]

Coy:

Back in the middle 70's I was visiting a friend who was getting his PhD at USM and he lived in the Physics lab on the top floor of the Walker Science Building. Using a HW100 I had built, I loaded up the metal strip around the roofline just for kicks and called CQ on 20 cw. Low and behold a French station came back to me. I think it impressed me a lot more than it did him. I think we all have stories like that. N5OHL loaded his metal storage building up on 40 meters.


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:17:44 -0500,  wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> Some day I'll have to tell you the story of how we worked France on the
> bed springs.  Bed springs should date it for you.
> 
> Coy
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> 
> Rick Vidmar - K9KK wrote:
> > 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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73,
Alan, N5PA