----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:45
PM
Subject: Re: LF: East to West TA
attempts
All
2 cents...
I'm beginning to wonder if we're not looking
at this backwards..
Jay
I'll give it 10 cents. I believe you are right.
On reflection this band is a waste of time for amateurs with their small
antennas and low power.
In the commercial business they use megawatts and
very large antennas to achieve their object. We tried to re invent the
wheel.
To get 2 cents worth of dashes per month is a
poor return for the effort!!!!!!!!!
G3KEV
What I mean by that is, we're focusing
on the current poor conditions as abnormal. It appears
abnormal when compared to the few good nights of propagation we had about
a week ago. Perhaps the few good nights were the anomoly and not the current
poor conditions.
My reason for saying this is that I've looked
over the past couple years notes on my TA receptions. In past years, assuming
DST numbers today are equivelenet to those in past years (which may
or may not be the case), I rarely if ever had a decent TA reception
when the DST was in negative territory.
To me, last weekend's good TA propagation with a
DST of -20 or -15 would be very unusual - using the
past history as a guide.
2 cents...take it for what it's
worth...
Jay W1VD / WD2XNS
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:48
AM
Subject: Re: LF: East to West TA
attempts
All,
I wouldn't recommend losing sleep trying to get
signals across at this
point. Conditions are quite poor, and may not get
better quickly, as the
flow from a coronal hole will kick in around
Monday. Jay and I will
likely be running enough over the weekend to see
how things are going.
I'd be hesitant to put a timetable on the
recovery, as this week's
propagation crash is not fully
understood.
John A.
