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- SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP003
- ARLP003 Propagation de KT7H
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- ZCZC AP17
- QST de W1AW
- Propagation Forecast Bulletin 3 ARLP003
- >From Tad Cook, KT7H
- Seattle, WA January 21, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB PROP ARL ARLP003
- ARLP003 Propagation de KT7H
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- Solar flux was down a bit last week, an average of 17 points
- relative to the previous week. Geomagnetic activity was up a bit
- toward the end of the period with a few episodes of the K index
- reaching five. The flux dipped just below 100 and is now heading
- back up, with a predicted peak near 135 in a few days. It is then
- expected to head down toward 105 around February 9 before rising
- again. Active geomagnetic conditions are forecast for the day that
- this bulletin is released and again around January 28 and February
- 8.
-
- The latest long range forecast shows the solar flux rising a few
- points on the average until April, then dropping back below the
- current level by this Fall, and an average 12 points lower a year
- from now. The flux minimum is expected by January of February,
- 1997, and the next maximum in the Summer of 2000.
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- Sunspot Numbers from January 13 through 19 were 61, 46, 45, 49, 34,
- 43 and 39, with a mean of 45.3. 10.7 cm flux was 95, 90.2, 95.7,
- 100.3, 105.4, 100.7 and 103, with a mean of 98.6.
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- The path projection for this weekend is from Newport News, Virginia
- to Angola.
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- The low end of 80 meters should be good from 2230 to 0500z, but the
- high end of 75 meters could open a half hour earlier and close a
- half hour later. 40 meters looks good from 2130 to 0600, and 30
- meters from 2030 to 0700, with the most promising periods from 2230
- to 0030, and around 0600. 20 meters looks good from 1900 to 2300,
- and 17 meters from 1600 to 2100. 15 meters should be open from 1300
- to 2000, 12 meters from 1400 to 2000, and 10 meters from 1500 to
- 1900.
- NNNN
- /EX
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