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kg4kww
02-26-2008, 04:11 AM
A new sunspot (circled) is emerging near the sun's equator. Photo credit: Howard Eskildsen of Ocala, Florida.
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2008/25feb08/Howard-Eskildsen163.gif
More Info: www.spaceweather.com
WOW! A whole sunspot!
Today the SSN is 12!! oooppieee dooo!!
If I am not hearing JA's till 10 pm on 15 meters again, I am not impressed!
N7RJD
02-26-2008, 04:38 AM
WOW! A whole sunspot!
Today the SSN is 12!! oooppieee dooo!!
If I am not hearing JA's till 10 pm on 15 meters again, I am not impressed!
Baby steps. Greg just wants to be sure he is the first to break the news so he's starting a few years early. ;)
"Go home, go home, there is nothing to see here! "
Nothing to get excited about. The new cycle is indicated by high latitude spots, with reversed magnetic polarity. I don't read anything about that in the discription of this sunspot. Have patience, everyone !
73, Jim
kg4kww
02-26-2008, 04:45 AM
A sun spot is a sun spot, so, don't try to down play this.
kc4ylv
02-26-2008, 04:48 AM
I vote we name it George.
I'm not downplaying this at all. I am just saying that you are not going to experience 'round the world, round the clock propagation on 10 meters during the next week because of this very normal solar event !
When the Sun looks like someone hit it with a paintball gun, THEN I will get EXCITED !
kg4kww
02-26-2008, 05:13 AM
I'm more interested in the 75m dx window myself.
10 and 12 are icing on the cake.
AD5ZC
02-26-2008, 05:29 AM
"Go home, go home, there is nothing to see here! "
Nothing to get excited about. The new cycle is indicated by high latitude spots, with reversed magnetic polarity. I don't read anything about that in the discription of this sunspot. Have patience, everyone !
73, Jim
Exactly.
However, this is interesting because there has been a confirmed high latitude reverse polarity spot about 3-4 weeks ago. Remnant from old cycle?
When the Sun looks like someone hit it with a paintball gun, THEN I will get EXCITED !
Yeah, really!
And when I can work the last 4 JA prefectures I need for Worked all JA Prefectures on 6 meters then I will get EXCITED!
I should have paid just a little more attention back in the early 80's! :(
There was a lot of "dozo-ing" going on back then on 6!! :)
kl7aj
02-26-2008, 06:28 AM
A new sunspot (circled) is emerging near the sun's equator. Photo credit: Howard Eskildsen of Ocala, Florida.
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2008/25feb08/Howard-Eskildsen163.gif
More Info: www.spaceweather.com
It ain't a sunspot till you can see it with your bare eye. :)
ad4mg
02-26-2008, 10:02 AM
Exactly.
However, this is interesting because there has been a confirmed high latitude reverse polarity spot about 3-4 weeks ago. Remnant from old cycle?
Yep, exactly. It indicates that we are not yet out of the solar minimum of cycle 23. Nothing at all to get excited about, unless you enjoy the current conditions!
W1RFI
02-26-2008, 12:08 PM
I'm more interested in the 75m dx window myself.
Then sunspots are not your friend. At sunspot minimum, the lower bands do better than they will later in the cycle when ionization is higher and losses for signals passing through the ionosphere increase.
Ed Hare, W1RFI
K8ERV
02-26-2008, 12:46 PM
When the Sun looks like someone hit it with a paintball gun, THEN I will get EXCITED !
I don't think Icarus took a paint gun with him.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
cu2jt
02-26-2008, 01:22 PM
I'm more interested in the 75m dx window myself.
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so, come up and see me some time.. Safe spot would be around 3550 if I am looking for generals and QRP, otherwise around 3515-3520, at 2200-2359 UTC
I don't think Icarus took a paint gun with him.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
Maybe not, Tom, but he sure made a mess with all that wax and feathers!
:D ;)
k0cmh
02-26-2008, 03:32 PM
Before I got my end fed zepp up, I could not wait for the return of sun spots and 10 meters.
But . . . . 160 meters is rocking, what with little ionization of the D layer and sufficient ionization of the F layer , and somewhat the E layer.
I am having so much fun on 160 that I don't what it to stop. Thank goodness I have a little time before that changes.
But I will love getting out that 10 meter 750 mw transmitter I built in 2004. Its day will come.:)
KA4DPO
02-26-2008, 03:50 PM
I'm still not convinced that propagation has turned the corner yet but at least we will start getting some sporadic E in the next few months. Hopefully we will begin to see improvement on 40, that's where it usually starts. When that happens you know the cycle is ramping up.
KB4BLU
02-26-2008, 09:01 PM
Maybe not, Tom, but he sure made a mess with all that wax and feathers!
:D ;)
Exactly, he fell down on the job. :D
AC0FP
02-26-2008, 09:33 PM
There is at least one theory that the cycle 23 minimum will be a long one, its happened before. Anyway with this theory cycle 24 does not start until the fourth month of 2010.
Just because there was one cycle 24 spot, which only lasted one day, a month or so ago does not mean cycle 24 has started. Although, some might say it tried to start and "fisseled" out.;)
G0GQK
02-26-2008, 10:22 PM
I've seen teenagers with bigger zits than that !
G0GQK
AC0FP
02-26-2008, 10:58 PM
I've seen teenagers with bigger zits than that !
G0GQK
Leave it to a "Brit" to put things in perspective.:D
n4bfd
02-26-2008, 11:46 PM
12 sunspots now...
I'm not downplaying this at all. I am just saying that you are not going to experience 'round the world, round the clock propagation on 10 meters during the next week because of this very normal solar event !
When the Sun looks like someone hit it with a paintball gun, THEN I will get EXCITED !
Like this? :)
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/pictures/insidesun/sunspot032901.gif
Exacitally ! :p ;) :cool:
kg4kww
02-27-2008, 04:09 AM
This is what the spaceweather web site is now saying.
New sunspot 983 poses no threat for strong solar flares.
:(
And it's all because the nasty posters at QRZ scared it away. :p
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2008/26feb08/midi163.gif