Re: Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

It turns out that there have been two cycles back to back with what we would consider bad numbers. They started in 1800 and it lasted three cycles. It's called the Dalton minimum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Minimum On 6/5/2016 2:50 PM, Kevin Stover wrote: If I read the reference

Re: Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

that Cycle 24 will be looked at as the beginning of a new Maunder Minimum. Thanks 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: "Kevin Stover" <kevin.sto...@mediacombb.net> To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 3:40:53 PM Subject: Re: Topband: VANISHIN

Re: Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

> On Jun 5, 2016, at 11:40 53AM, Kevin Stover > wrote: > > I think Cycle 24 will be looked at as the beginning of a new Maunder Minimum. > If so then Cycle 24 will be as good as it gets for the next 70 years on the > high bands. That’s not all bad. It gives me

Re: Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

Thanks Bill. I think Cycle 24 will be looked at as the beginning of a new Maunder Minimum. If so then Cycle 24 will be as good as it gets for the next 70 years on the high bands. On 6/5/2016 10:05 AM, Jeff Kinzli N6GQ wrote: Bill, good reads, thank you. It seems that the consensus is that

Re: Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

Bill, good reads, thank you. It seems that the consensus is that cycle 25 will be less active than cycle 24, with some projections putting it at the lowest in many cycles. I think the theory is that the speed of the conveyor belt is an indicator the vigor of the coming cycle. Do we have any

Topband: VANISHING SUNSPOTS (http://spaceweather.com/)

Something interesting is happening on the sun. Yesterday, June 3rd, the sunspot number dropped to 0, and the solar disk is still blank on June 5th. Latest images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveal no significant dark cores. What does this mean? The solar cycle is like a pendulum,