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Poor conditions (noob)

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Josh:
The hell it is, 40 and 80 were dead last night. Must be my timing.

nickcarr3151:
HF conditions were super yesterday and seem to be really good this morning as well.

redhat:

--- Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on January 16, 2020, 1158 UTC ---Conditions have been wonderful on the lower bands, Lately I've been receiving pirates from Greece on MW. And it is nice to not have nearly continuous solar flares and CMEs, wrecking the geomagnetic field for days or weeks.

Solar minimum isn't a bug, it's a feature.  :)

--- End quote ---

Agreed.  Poor conditions on higher frequencies doesn't mean that there isn't fun to be had elsewhere.  Take our operation for example; when conditions on 43M started taking a nose dive, we modified out operating practices.  We are using more power than before, but not by any large magnitude.  The real difference was made by going down to 4 MHz during the winter months, and 6.3 MHz during the summer, where the MUF was more usable, and with less interference.

I also remember a number of nights closer to the peak where I would be heading out, only to find out after I was setup that we had a CME and conditions were poor.  Mimimum is not a bad thing!

+-RH

Pigmeat:
This is why I miss " '73 Magazine". Tomas Hood could set up a prop chart a month in advance that was nearly flawless.

Josh:
The good news is we've not hit rock bottom yet.

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