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
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----- Original Message -----
From: "g3ldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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
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