[Yaesu] sunspots

[John AA5JG]

Hi Dan,

11 years is just the average sunspot cycle length.  Some have been as short as 8 or 9 years from peak to peak, and others have been as long as 14 years before peaks.  We might have hit one of the longer ones.  Look on the bright side, it can't get any worse than it is now-and even better, Es (the main prop mode on 6m, the only band that really counts) isn't affected by the sunspot cycle!

73s John AA5JG


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Dan Cotsirilos K9DTC" <k9dtc at comcast.net>
Date:  Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:46:11 -0500

>When I was first licensed in 1988/1989 winter the sunspot cycle was at it peak. As a tech I talked all over the world with a barefoot TS-440 on 10 meters. 
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>You add 11 to 88 and you get 99. You add 11 to 99 and you get 2010, We are about 2 years from 2010 and the bands appear to be dead? Unless I am figuring wrong something seems to be very wrong?
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>Dan K9DTC
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