4 Mar 2020
Still no sunspots
We had a few in January, but it has been spotless since. If we were after the minimum I should have expected to see a few by now. We live in hope! Solar flux is still very low. It would not surprise me to hear we are only now at the solar minimum.
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No sunspots....does it affect propagation. Yes it does, but not that much. However signals are weak but propagation is still there. I had a QSO with FT8 on 10m with South Orkney Islands yesterday evening (and was not the only one!). Signals were quite strong at one moment, I think a SSB would have been possible at one moment...73, Bas
Indeed Bas. I well remembering working LU with QRP SSB on 10m in the last sunspot minimum. Often the issue is low activity levels and NOT poor propagatiion. BTW, no beams here!
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