As we have been told by the experts, we have passed the lowest part of the sun spot cycle, and we are now at the start of a new sunspot cycle, however the band conditions are not yet favourable for me (at least). With my lowly rotatable 4 band dipole (40, 20, 15 and 10m) I find it still very difficult to get the attention of those dxpeditioners, amateur radio contests are a chore for me, with luck and CW I’m able to get few rare prefix on 40m but again I have to compete with illegal stations on the lower edge. No government seems to be interested in reducing the illegal staions operating USB on the CW portion of 40m. I long for the days of when 20, 15 and 10 meters are open nearly all of the day, but when will the sunspots are coming?? God knows
September 1, 2008
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