[PaQSO] long 40m, try 80m more?

[Hank Greeb]

We folks in Michigan and others in other places of similar distance will 
really appreciate folks who are on 40 from your state. :)

I've probably experienced 10 or 11 solar cycles in my 60+ years of 
hamming, so this "anomaly" we've been experiencing recently doesn't seem 
very anomalous.

40 has {usually) been longer than NVIS.  In conversations with RA, the 
Egyptian sun god, I've been told to expect the unexpected, because he 
and the Norse, Roman, Greek, and other sun gods often collaborate to 
give us mortals surprises in propagation. :)

They've recently been showering us with ongoing high solar winds, from a 
large "hole" in he atmospher of he sun.  This has done strange things to 
propagation.  So, as the boy scouts are wont to say "Be Prepared" for 
anything.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time


On 10/1/2016 8:56 AM, Pete K0BAK via PaQSO wrote:
> I'm really into NPOTA, and I've noticed that since around April,
>
> 40m is been "long". From here in the Philly burbs,
> I now almost never hear parks on 40m in EPA, metro NYC,NJ, WDC, or northern MD and VA. So, I wonder if 40m daytime will be as
>
> effective for in-state county contacts and neighboring states as it was for the previous two years.
>
> I've only been active two years, so I don't know the seasonal band patterns. In those two years, 40m daylight seemed to be the bread-and-butter band for QSO parties, but I wonder if it will work as well now. Should we consider spending a bit more time on 80m daylight for longer groundwave if 40m isn't as productive as expected?
>
> Would be interested in hearing from the experienced operators who've been through a few propagation cycles.
>
> -- Pete K0BAK