In article . net,
"Stewart Mackenzie" wrote:

Snip

On the weekend of Jan 6th, a windy rain storm came through my area
and broke my antenna wire. I repaired it with about a loss of 10 feet
of wire. My antenna is now about 70 feet in length and is now at an
angle. Reception of the bands from about 4.7 to 10 Mhz has been GREAT
during the morning to noon hours. 21 mHz has been dead most of the
time with 17 mHz down to 11 mHz normal reception. I do not know why
the lower bands are suddenly alive with strong signals BUT I
understand the reception in Australia is also tremendous too! What
is happening??? Whatever it is, I hope it will last a long time for
us radio listeners.

Yeah we have had some strong winds around here in Ventura.

The low bands do better with lower Sun activity we have had recently.
This is also winter in NA, which also favors the lower bands. I don't
pick up much these days on 13 meters (21, 400 KHz to 21,900 KHz) but 16
meters (17,480 KHz to 17,900 KHZ) and the other bands on down has been
pretty good.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

In article
,
Telamon wrote:

In article . net,
"Stewart Mackenzie" wrote:

Snip

On the weekend of Jan 6th, a windy rain storm came through my area
and broke my antenna wire. I repaired it with about a loss of 10 feet
of wire. My antenna is now about 70 feet in length and is now at an
angle. Reception of the bands from about 4.7 to 10 Mhz has been GREAT
during the morning to noon hours. 21 mHz has been dead most of the
time with 17 mHz down to 11 mHz normal reception. I do not know why
the lower bands are suddenly alive with strong signals BUT I
understand the reception in Australia is also tremendous too! What
is happening??? Whatever it is, I hope it will last a long time for
us radio listeners.

Yeah we have had some strong winds around here in Ventura.

The low bands do better with lower Sun activity we have had recently.
This is also winter in NA, which also favors the lower bands. I don't
pick up much these days on 13 meters (21, 400 KHz to 21,900 KHz) but 16
meters (17,480 KHz to 17,900 KHZ) and the other bands on down has been
pretty good.

It's another windy day in Southern California so keep an eye on your
antennas Stewart.

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Telamon
Ventura, California