Re: Topband: 160m - better at solar max or solar min?

2012-11-27 Thread N4IS
Carl  >> Now we just went through the deepest solar min in our lifetimes - which also means we were hit with more GCRs than ever in our recorded history (about 19% more than anything we've seen in the past 50 years). So it very well could be that this solar min was too quiet geomagnetically speaki

Re: Topband: 160m - better at solar max or solar min?

2012-11-27 Thread Tom W8JI
Now we just went through the deepest solar min in our lifetimes - which also means we were hit with more GCRs than ever in our recorded history (about 19% more than anything we've seen in the past 50 years). So it very well could be that this solar min was too quiet geomagnetically speaking - an

Topband: 160m - better at solar max or solar min?

2012-11-27 Thread k...@frontier.com
Eddy,   You said: "Perhaps high solar activity IS really & truly the bane of 160-meters, after all..."   That's a reasonable conclusion based solely on our observations. But it's interesting to bring some science into the picture.   When you look at ionization at night in the upper D region/lower