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

[Larry Lilly]

Greetings All.  40 m has been much more often than "normal" has been LONG.   EPA working Me Mi Oh Va and NC not hearing 2 land or 3 land.  I don't see things changing for the contest.  40m didn't seem to shorten up until about noon.  I would not look for local contacts early on.  You learn what it means to Work a station.  Prepare for a lot of cw time.  Good Luck everyone and call often!!!!  Have a fun contest and work the 67 !!!!  73s de Larry N3CR. CAR

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> On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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