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VK6BE > VHFDX 25.06.11 09:30l 26 Lines 1232 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VK6BE > 50MHz DX
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From: VK6BE@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : VHFDX@WW
Thanks for the correction Warren. I must watch that. The sunspot count
went over 100 a week or so back. Noone expected the 200 plus count in 1958
but it happened.100 count is quite high enough for some F layer
propagation. I have been watching this type of DX since 1958 when I was
the observer in this part of the world for the Stanford University in
California. I must say they gave credit where it was due with regular
certificates acknowledging my reports.
As we were going well down into the trough a while ago I worked on 6 two
hams in KH6,and one in T88 and I heard the XE1 beacon. Unfortunately the
operators in XE1 were not around at the time and so no contact occurred.
However some amateurs in our east did work XE1, and this was when the
count was supposed to be low. At the distances involved it had to be F2.
As far as 6 metre DX is concerned nothing is set in concrete.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
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Eh, mHz is millihertz so mind the shift key. (;->)
"The skip is certainly too short for F2 propagation."
Not only that but the MUF not nearly high enough. With the steady decline
in sunspots this maximum looks half baked and the future could bring a
prolonged minimum.
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