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From: "Alan Melia" <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
To: "LF-Group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:14:39 -0000
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Subject: LF: CFH ....??
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Hi all, The appearance CFH is not a good indicator of conditions at present
because its erratic transmissions schedules mean it cannot be relied upon to
be transmitting. It was active last night but the levels received here and
at CT1DRP are nothing special. Some of this may be due to location dependent
multipath fading, but generally the peak level was about 10dB below
"normal". The night / day fade started at just before 0600z and though there
was a little peak around 0800z this was 20dB down on the night time level.
Conditions are still a little disturbed and not as good as they were earlier
in the month. John and Warren's part 5 signals were received as decodable
strings on 30 second mode, and Joe's QRP 30 second dot signal was visible at
just "O" last night. There was another minor geomagnetic storm early this
morning, whilst this will not have too bad an effect it will probably delay
the improvment of overnight conditions. Hopefully they will return by the
Easter weekend.

Cheers de Alan G3NYK
alan.melia(at)btinternet.com