Simple QRP projects, 10m, 8m, 6m, 4m, FT8, 160m, WSPR, LF/MF, sub-9kHz, nanowaves and other random stuff, some not related to amateur radio.
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.
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!
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
ReplyDeleteIndeed 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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