It may take a contest to get things going.  20 and 15 meters were excellent
this weekend for DX on CW, and there was plenty of sporadic-E on 10 and 6,
including some openings in the FM broadcast band at times.  Try evenings
rather than daytime for 20 meters and see what's happening.  

I ended up with 242 QSOs in the WPX CW contest, but I learned that I need to
do a lot more work on N1MM Logger and Window-Eyes so that I know when I'm
making mistakes such as putting a QSO number and then another callsign into
the callsign field because I didn't hit the spacebar at the right time.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Richard Fiorello
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 8:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: BAND conditions
> 
> Hi;
> I realize that someone commented about a 10 meter opening a few days ago
> but
> has anyone else felt that the bands are unusually quiet even for summer
> and
> a bad time in the sun spot cycle?  Not many strong signals here at all
> which
> is a bit surprising.  Also, when is the last time you heard someone on
> phone
> call cq?  Its kind of a shame.
> Richard