You may have a point that Art and the rest of the people who he referred
to are right near the equator.  I wonder then what do people near the
poles get to put up with or enjoy or be challenged with inhi regard to all
the bands?  After local sun down I never hear anything on 20-meters.





On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> All I can think of is, that 20 meters is open during both in the day
> and at night.  During the day, the skip is short enough that very few
> stations are in range.  Maybe with in 1,500 miles or so.  Conditions
> in the tropics are so different than conditions in the higher
> latitudes, that the band stays open at night, but with much longer
> skip, the band stays open.
> I hear that from the tropics, conditions are better at the bottom of
> the sunspot cycle than we get at the top of the cycle.
>
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