[Scan-DC] Propagation Question

[Robert DiRosario]

Your radios work fine, the sun is broken, there are few to no sunspots.  
We need to figure out how to produce sunspots!
RobertKA3ZYX
 

    On Friday, June 24, 2016 5:25 PM, Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:
 

 The solar flux index (SFI) is currently 78.  That's very low.  Read more 
about it: 
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/0209038.pdf

Ed, KR3E



-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott, KB3JQQ via Scan-DC
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 4:47 PM
To: Steve
Cc: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Propagation Question

We have zero sunspots again today.


http://space weather.com



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> On Jun 24, 2016, at 16:10, Steve <restonham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I realize this is not a ham radio list, but many of the people on it are 
> hams as well as folks interested in scanning (as I am).
>
> Over the past few days the HF ham bands seem to have been totally dead 
> during the day.  Occasionally a very weak signal would surface on 40 
> meters, but nothing really in the way of CW or SSB.  I checked with 
> several different receivers using different antennas and the results have 
> been the same.  Basically nothing on any band.  That's expected for 160 
> and 80 during the day in the Summer, but 40 always seemed to have some 
> chatter, as did 30, 20 and 17.
>
> Can anyone corroborate this?  Or is Reston in a black hole 😱.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve, N4EUK
>
>
>
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