Text 4903, 47 rader
Skriven 2012-11-22 00:13:23 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
   Kommentar till text 4902 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Food for thought
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Hi Roy,

On Wed 2012-Nov-21 14:48, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

 ROY>> BTW, this seems to be building up steam at the moment.

 RW> YEah I'm not surprised.  Conditions seemed rather good for
 RW> awhile last night for the contest on 20 meters,

Roy> There is a solar report posted in the HAM echo (almost daily now)
Roy> that shows solar activity over the past 5 days or so.

YEp, see those and skim them.  IF there's something really
noteworthy gonna happen with mister SOl I get via email
warnings from a guy on the 14300 khz nets' listservs.

Roy> Nov 12-14 there was a low solar flux of less than 130 or so...on the
Roy> eve of the 16th, the solar flux went into over drive with a high of
Roy> 146, about the time of the 'waco incident' and your weekend of
Roy> contesting. Then it settled in at 141 until the next flare up comes
Roy> along. The intensity is brewing and is expected to peak soon.

yEah it's been strange last few days.
Lots of short skip tuesday when my xyl ran her 20 meter net.

 RW> I worked about half a dozen west coast sections and then the band
 RW> went to hell, but really didn't open up to the west good for me on
 RW> 40 meters.  I think in the first 1.5 hours I had 39 contacts, and
 RW> of those 36 were unique arrl sections, I think I had all the
 RW> California sections, Western Washington, NEvada and ARizona all on
 RW> 20 meters within the first 20 minuets.

Roy> Kinda hard not to have all of the California sections with so many
Roy> HAMs living in that state. About 5000 in San Diego county alone.

No but you gota hunt for some of 'em, Santa Clara Valley,
but I had all them, and Eastern Washington.  I heard WEstern WAshington then
the band went out on me while i was joining
the pile up for him, so I spun back to where I heard a
Nevada, he was gone too.  I did get my Nevada later on on 7
mhz though.


Regards,
           Richard
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