A sign of things to come?

[a29zuk]

Tuesday and Wednesday R. Australia on 17715 and R. Korea(North) on 15180 were listenable at 0130 zulu. Even though yesterday the bands were dead maybe solar activity is finally increasing.

 

[ka3jjz]

Hmm...I read on spaceweather that we were inside a solar wind stream for a day or two. That's likely to have contributed to the nice opening. With the flux levels staying in the 70s, activity hasn't started to rise yet, darn it....73s Mike

 

[zz0468]

After all the activity that the Ducie Island DXpidition generated all the up through the 10 meter band, I'm not 100% convinced the bands are as dead as people think they are. In the last several months, I worked those guys on 7 bands, Japan and South America while mobile on 17 and 10 meters. Get on the air and make some noise! Someone will hear you.

 

[ka3jjz]

They aren't 'dead', just harder to work with right now due to the low activity. Yeah I had heard about all that Ducie Isl activity. Sure wish I could put up a decent HF antenna outdoors...73s Mike