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I looked at the article and my view is that this work less about solar minimums
and more about solar irradiance changes over long periods of time.
Although it has scientific merits, I would argue that this is one of the many
pieces of work out there that, perhaps not on purpose, shed doubt
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As far as I can understand, wires / radials just under the surface of the
ground are simply conductors embedded in a lossy dielectric (with an interface
to air near it), similar to carbon filled plastic or other such material. If
the loss and the dielectric constant is low, the wir
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I have tested RBN / skimmer raw data and Excel with preprocessing with CSVed to
confirm station performance after many major CW contests I have been in.
In order to see how a station covers a certain target area, I typically take
one hour timeslots, one country or in the case us US, one zo