[PPRAANet] Where have all the sunspots gone?

[Larry Wilkes]

Wasn’t that a song by Pete Seeger from the 50s/60s?  “Where have all the sunspots gone, long time passing?”

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> On 13 Dec 2019, at 23:20, K3ILC <je_madsen at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> We are about to set a new record for the lack of sunspots.  If we don't get some short skip or have some coronal holes this weekend, the 10-meter contest (which starts today local time) will have to be renamed the 10-meter ground-wave contest.
>  From https://spaceweather.com/ yesterday:
> "The sun has been blank (no sunspots) for 266 days so far in 2019--including the last 29 days in a row. If this continues for only 3 more days, 2019 will break the Space Age record for blank suns in a calendar year. The previous mark (268 spotless days) was set in 2008 during an historically deep Solar Minimum. The Solar Minimum of 2019 is shaping up to be even deeper"
> I used to religiously follow solar activity during the sunspot maxima.  Some of the sites I went to were:
> https://www.raben.com/maps/    (The sun is so blank, that it looked like someone forgot to populate the sun with data).
> https://dx.qsl.net/propagation/  I don't think the SFI can get much lower than presented on this page.  And look at the Xray flux chart.  It looks like an ECG of a dead person.
> http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/dst_index/page1.html  This shows the current geomagnetic-storm low is very low.
> Only cosmic rays are increasing, because the CMEs that normally sweep them aside are nonexistent.
> I know we're in a solar minimum, but this is ridiculous.
> 
> 73
> Jim
> K3ILC
> 
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