It's just medium bad right now. The Solar Flux on
Thursday May 21 was 102 without very much geomagnetic
disturbance.

	What you get there is no good propagation on the higher
HF bands and too much static for the low bands to be any good.
It's just grey and boring.

	One thing to keep in mind is that Sporadic E can pop up
at any time.

	I remember the Summer of 1980 for lots of reasons. I was
job hunting and it was record hot in Oklahoma but the ham radio
thing I remember was that it was lousy most of the Summer except
for some pretty good tropo on several mornings during the
hottest part of the Summer and an E opening on July 17 that made
up for the rest of the Summer.

	It kind of built up and I remember hearing what was
probably NOAA Weather Radio from the mid Atlantic region which
is about 1500 miles east of Oklahoma but I wasn't really sure. On
July 17, however, things popped wide open all day. Channel 2
television was open to many places and I had a full-quieting QSO
with a fellow in Jacksonville, Florida on the 146.07-67 repeater
in Jacksonville and the 07-67 repeater in Oklahoma City. It was
really weird.

	That same evening, I heard the Noaa Weather Radio
station in Jacksonville shortly after making the QSO.

	I think the next day, things went back to big-time
boring so you have to make a habit of spinning the dial from
time to time or you'll miss the good stuff.

Martin

Phil Scovell writes:
> Ron,
> 
> Naw, it isn't harp.  We have so few sunspots each day now, I don't see how
> any band is propagating at all.  I think we had 75 sunspots just yesterday
> for example.  Pretty low activity.
> 
> Phil.
> K0NX
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
> 
> 
> > You really think it's harp and not the sunspot cycle?
> >
> >
> > On 5/20/2015 5:16 PM, Phil Scovell wrote:
> >> When I cannot copy W1AW code practice Q5 even on 20 meters, the bands =
> >> conditions are really bad.  It isn't long propagation either; just 
> poor =
> >> band conditions.  I have noticed how many groups normally on 75 meters 
> =
> >> year round are now scheduling on 40 meter sideband instead.  I've even 
> =
> >> seen some 40 meters groups moving up to 20 meters.  I've seen lots of =
> >> poor band conditions but this is ridiculous.  Maybe we should call up =
> >> HARP in Alaska, and the other HARP installations around the world and =
> >> tell them to start operations up again or to stop what they are doing; 
> =
> >> either way, whatever works.
> >>
> >> Phil.
> >> K0NX
> >>
> >>
> >> Phil.
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