[SixClub] Re: [Heathkit:Yahoo] Propagation & Activity

[kd4e]

When the going gets tough the tough get going ... these
are the times that Hams need to have quicker networks to
share awareness of openings from 160 - 2M!

There are some good networks out there, mostly designed
by and for contesters, but some 10M and 6M-specific for
not-necessarily-contesters.

I was "discovering" 6M in 2008 and observed the directional
movement of propagation, N-S, E-W, etc.  Thus an opening
from the PNW to the MidWest and/or East may not even be
experienced in the South - then sometimes the prop favored
the central US from N to S and the East and West would not
experience it at all.  Exciting and frustrating!

For the many who cannot have a rig on but who may be able
to get to one - are there any prop monitoring networks that
use auto-dialers to call cellphones?  There have been many
occasions that I could have gotten on the air had I received
timely work of prop that impacted west central FL.


> This morning I read that the past year was the longest and lowest 
> period of solar activity since the start of the US Space Program.
>
> I have been looking at the charts of the last 20 years of solar cycle 
> data. I can correlate it with the decline in activity I have seen here 
> in the PNW.
>
> We may see some improvement this year but it may be a couple of years 
> before it's anything to talk about.
>
> I hope I'm still around when things improve!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Kent (Seattle), Wa,
> "Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
>


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