All
2 cents...
I'm beginning to wonder if we're not looking
at this backwards...
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
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