Posts Tagged ‘f-layer’
Sunspots and HF conditions
June 8th, 2014 | 
Author: Today the sunspot count is 155 (good) but 20-30MHz conditions are expected to be poor. Mind you they were meant to be poor yesterday yet CX2ABP was a decent signal on 10m WSPR last evening.
So far this morning 6m has been disappointing with just locals spotting me and no Es seen, as yet. It was quiet on 6m yesterday , which was why I spent most of the day on 10m.
We are now in basically summertime conditions so we can expect F-layer DX to be mainly N-S with fewer E-W openings on 15, 12 and 10m. Of course Es livens the summer months and some quite exceptional DX is possible on rare days. This is one of the pleasures of summertime DXing, you can never be sure, even on 6m or even 4m. The latter is band I’ve rarely used.
Sunspots,10m and 6m
Sunspot count is 102 today (higher than of late) and 20-30MHz propagation is forecast to be “good”, so better than of late. 10m could be better for F-layer propagation today.
So far, it has been quiet on 6m again with just locals spotting me on WSPR – G4IKZ (18km) and G4KPX (14km). No sign of Es yet at 1040z.
