In spite of the lack of sunspots HF amateur radio propagation has greatly improved in the last few days. 20m has been especially improved with 15m opening after a long quiet time. 10m was open in the US most of Saturday afternoon. Could the correspondence of propagation and sunspots be over stated? I am just a user, not an expert! John Ferrell W8CCW "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." -Barry Goldwater "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." -Doug Floyd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell McMahon" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [TECH]:: The sun has gone out - still >>> 2009/7/4 Alan B. Pearce Alan.B.Pearce@stfc.ac.uk >>> Looks like the sun may be awakening ... >>> http://tinyurl.com/nqpox8 >>> Sunspots Ahoy ... my colleagues will be pleased. > But, no. > That proved to be a temporay aberration in a consistent assymptote towards > a > very dead sun indeed. > The sun is still continuing it's downwards activity plod. It's very hard > to > plod towards zero when you are already bumping along zero. > And still "the establishment" says largely nowt *. > > http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/ > > What part of "gone out" don't we und ... > No, of course it hasn't. > But it is surely doing something vastly unusual. > > * Not quite true. Some are now saying things like (non verbatim) "while > the > trend in manmade global warming is continuing, it is being masked in the > short term by natural cyclical variations in solar output and we can > expect > that warming may not 'get back on track' for a decade ot so but every care > must be taken to keep up efforts to combat arming so that we aren't caught > out when the short term solar fluctuation ends ...". All of which may well > be true. And may not. And nobody really knows. but you won't have any > problem getting people to take your money and giving an expert opinion in > either direction. > > Very interesting graph though. > > > > _________________ > > Apposite abstract here. > It would be interesting to see what they made of the current cycle. > > http://www.springerlink.com/content/576167w517041j37/ > > > > > > > > > > >> Looks like the sun may be awakening ... >> >> http://tinyurl.com/nqpox8 >> >> Sunspots Ahoy ... my colleagues will be pleased. >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist