2020-12-04, 21:01:02
Thanks John, this was very interesting and easy to understand. I’ve seen the solar data on iDX but really don’t have a datum to say what’s good or bad, and they group 40 and 80m together. Your plot clearly shows they should not be grouped in the evening, that’s useful for me to know. I find 80m weird, 2 weeks back on the net the noise was S5 and I heard everyone clear, this past net I was getting 10-15 over, and I was apparently not strong. Now my IC7300 wasn’t tuned, not sure why it doesn’t remember, maybe cause I was fooling round in the digital frequencies and retuned. My experience on 40M is always positive, aided I think with a 1:2 SWR on my dipole across half the band.
I was using 20M as well but for reasons I don’t understand my dipole SWR has gone off the scale, I have to pull it down and see what’s going on. I have them all fanned from a single point of contact and have added 6 and 10m, maybe getting too crowded.
I’ve tried using voacap but I find it’s usually showing a low % on most bands across the pond. Your chart is much more encouraging.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time.
I was using 20M as well but for reasons I don’t understand my dipole SWR has gone off the scale, I have to pull it down and see what’s going on. I have them all fanned from a single point of contact and have added 6 and 10m, maybe getting too crowded.
I’ve tried using voacap but I find it’s usually showing a low % on most bands across the pond. Your chart is much more encouraging.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time.
Doug McDougall 