Hi
I recall on a Sunday afternoon while at boarding school when there were no
other commitments, so decided to have a good bash on the air.
About 15:00 the bands went completely dead.  I mean completely!
A fellow ham came into the shack and also couldn't believe it.
I think that it was possibly June 1971.

73

David W Wood 

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 5:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sunday morning 10 meter conditions in Colorado

Lloyd,

It's better having a low sun spot cycle than being hit by a huge X flare. 
Back in the mid and late sixties, I copied many solar flare showers on 15 
meters that almost cleared off the whole band for several minutes.  We had 
one huge flare right during field day back then that shut every band down 
for about 30 minutes.  It was weird to hear.

Phil.
K0NX






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Sunday morning 10 meter conditions in Colorado


> Conditions were very good.  I don't expect they will remain this good for
> very long.  I supposed we could be surprised, though.  scientists don't
> really understand the sun at all, although their instrumentation has
> improved greatly.
>
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Phil Scovell
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 4:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Sunday morning 10 meter conditions in Colorado
>
> I haven't heard Europeans 20 over S9 for years on 10 meters but I did 
> Sunday
> morning for quite awhile and that's just on my G5RV up 38 feet.  Saturday
> night, the Japanese were crawling all over the phone band on 10 meters, 
> too,
> and some were super loud.  I copied a bunch of 100 watt JA signals, too,
> late into the evening.  This morning, Sunday, 15 was even better but 10
> really was rolling.  I took down my taller tower, 65 footer, with all my
> rotating antennas, a few years ago so my son could build a house on the 
> back
> of my property.  Unless I go self supporting, I don't have enough of yard
> space left to put up anything other than this 38 feet of tower bolted to 
> the
> back of my house but I'm hankering do do something with the bands sounding
> as they did today.  Maybe I can get my son to let me put up a guyed 100
> footer right on his, and my, property lines with one of the guy anchors at
> the end of his lot and the other's anchors in my lot, haha.  Yes, he will
> agree to it because I still own his Honda 1000 motor cycles he got used 
> for
> just under 5 grand.  My wife and I had to get the loan for him so fair is
> fair.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>