NOT SO BAD AS YOU MAKE OUT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
YESTERDAY, 20 WAS BUZZING.
NOT SO GOOD TODAY, BUT I HAVE MANAGED TO WORK E6GG on two bands.

73

David W Wood 

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: How Are The Bands Doing?

	I think HF stinks on ice for now but it isn't a total
washout.

	Ten is usually not good around the time of the Spring or
Autumnal Equinox times due to the angle of Solar radiation and
the way it tilts the ionosphere. This is true even during the
best of Solar cycles but this is not the best so ten is one of
the best places right now to hear your local RF trash from
computer networks, power lines and Heaven knows what else in the
neighborhood.

	There might be some fleeting openings on ten in October
and November if we have a rise in the Solar Flux around 150 or so
but it's pretty pathetic and you will need to be patient and
strike when the ions are hot which won't be often.

	The up side is that 80 and 160 will open up a little
earlier as the days get shorter and we don't tend to have quite
as much static in November through January so those bands can
sometimes be really great.

	I spun the dial on 40 yesterday afternoon and even the
broadcasters just above 40 were weak. I seemed to faintly hear
CHU in Canada on 7.85 but that comes in pretty well when the band
is open.

	Over all, it is bor---ing.

	If the Solar Flux jumps up suddenly here in what's left
of September and the A Index is low, give ten a try. You won't
hear a lot of state-side DX but you might hear Europe and or
Asia.

Martin


Lloyd Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Ten meters has been dead most of the time in the last month; 20 and 40 
> have
> skip that is, on the average, longer than it has been for the past few
> years.