Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83410 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 17:45:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ptb-mxscan02.plus.net) (212.159.14.236) by ptb-mailstore02.plus.net with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 17:45:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 5745 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 17:45:08 -0000 X-Filtered-by: Plusnet (hmail v1.01) X-Spam-detection-level: 11 Received: from ptb-mxcore02.plus.net (212.159.14.216) by ptb-mxscan02.plus.net with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 17:45:04 -0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com ([193.82.116.20]) by ptb-mxcore02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1AvK8a-0001Ef-Pc for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:45:00 +0000 X-Fake-Domain: majordom Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1AvK6z-0001F0-NK for rs_out@blacksheep.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:43:21 +0000 Received: from [194.73.73.111] (helo=gadolinium.btinternet.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AvK6z-0001Er-0Z for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:43:21 +0000 Received: from [213.122.1.69] (helo=Main) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #25) id 1AvK6x-0001yZ-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:43:20 +0000 X-Bad-Message-ID: no DNS (Main) Message-ID: <001901c3fa34$7a80a340$6507a8c0@Main> From: "Alan Melia" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <000701c3f7a9$3efe6920$6507a8c0@Main> <002901c3f7e4$ef6b59e0$a71279d1@jsm> <000c01c3f997$04835680$e3c428c3@erica> <000c01c3f99f$d7cda240$11e086d4@erica> <000a01c3fa1f$a4ce0080$14e086d4@erica> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:41:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: LF: Re: VO1NA QRV again Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PN-SPAMFiltered: yes X-Spam-Rating: 2 Unfortunately a case of "Duff-Gen" Peter. The killer is the geomagnetic activity (not the sunspots) and their peak always trails the sunspot peak by up to about two years. Things do seem to be calming down a bit now but not as quickly as we would all like. I think from my investigation of the last minimum we will still get geomag storms in the minimum years but they will be further apart allowing more time for recovery from the absorption, and hopefully more DX. Keep looking, things are improving we are still only about 12 days past a minor storm, and I think a few more days of quiet will improve things. I may be able to give better reasons, in retrospect, when Kyoto Univ has caught up with the Dst Index estimations. Keep with it......it should get better (eventually....as the doctor said) Cheers de Alan G3NYK alan.melia@btinternet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "g3ldo" To: Sent: 23 February 2004 14:22 Subject: Re: LF: Re: VO1NA QRV again > > Joe > > > > > You started off quite strong around 2330 then faded. I > > replied but saw nothing as of 0100. Will run dot 30 > > beacon. > > > > Nothing seen of you earlier. Signal peaked to M between 0200 and 0230. > Fragments through the night. Peaked again after 0700. > > During the winter of 2000/ 2001, and at other times, we had some very good > LF conditions and it was generally predicted that it would get better as we > moved away from the sun spot cycle high. It doesn't seemed to have happened > that way. > > Regards, > Peter, G3LDO > > e-mail > > Web > > >