On Jan 25, 4:03*pm, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:
"D. Travis" wrote in message

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Around the low bands so 80 and 40 *it seems barely to plough through...
No sunspots or what ?
What prediction sites is relighable ?
Have you heard the event on the magnethosphere ? *I have.

Few sunspots this year. *http://www.hamradioresources.com/hamradio*is one
possibility for a prediction site. *The "Space Weather" link, second box
from the left, is relevant. *See the tutorial, too.

Also, the following is quoted from "The ARRL Letter":

quote
For more information concerning radio propagation,
visit the ARRL Technical Information Service Propagation page
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html. To read this week's
Solar Report in its entirety, check out the W1AW Propagation Bulletin
page http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/.
end quote

Don't know what "event" you heard. *Details? *Web link?

I don't do much 160 except for local chitchat. *(I'm in SoCal.)
80 has been hopping. *Quite a bit of long skip, including coast-to-coast
action and Europe from the East Coast, I hear. *Running power is a big help,
more so than the higher bands, I think.
40 seems to be in the doldrums.
20 has occasional good days. *I heard Alaska working Alabama today. *During
most days, 800 - 1200 mile paths are common for me. *Lately around sunset 20
has been going off like it's being switched off, quite different from last
summer.
I don't have a decent antenna for 15.
10 might as well be on Mars lately, although some folks claim to have
enjoyed openings. *Not me, not lately.

I hope this helps.

10m has its moments. A couple of weeks ago I worked Missouri and
Louisanna from NC. I heard two guys chatting and thought they were
local. Threw out my call and found they were in Slidell Ms.When I got
finished talking to them a guy in St Louis called me. He couldnt hear
the guys in MS. 10M is not dead you just have to wait for an opening.

Jimmie