
Come back Skip Come back
- woodchuck
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Come back Skip Come back
where or where did the skip go I mean it is way too quite on my receive I got this new radio and no skip damn it oh well I know it will come back it just needs to hurry the hell up. 

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- Night Crawler
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When the Sunspot Cycle gets better or in the late spring and early summer when E-skip is back.
- woodchuck
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Oh wait a minute some thing or the spirits heard me it is back and wow I made several contacts but there is almost too much now.
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yea im in WI and its crazy up here i just talked to huston texas with a galaxy dx 73v and a penetrator antenna with no amp.
- Night Crawler
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That's because the Solar Flux is at 90 which determines the Maximum Usable Frequency and the Sunspot Number is at 41. Also it might be enhanced by some Sporatic E propagation.woodchuck wrote:Oh wait a minute some thing or the spirits heard me it is back and wow I made several contacts but there is almost too much now.
Wait till the Solar Flux gets to around 200 and the SSN to 150 then it will be something to get excited about.
- woodchuck
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I know anything about how to figure out solar flux that is a little over my head but yeah it is coming back and I am happy 

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- woodchuck
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Skip is gone again just when I was getting into it I hate that.



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- treeman702
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Hang in there,,the sunspot cycle is on the rise and by the peak in 2013 you probably wont be able to talk local like back in 2000, (the last peak) I was talking all over Europe on upper sideband on only 100 watts. Daytime traffic will start to increase. I have already made some dx contacts. Be patient,,It will come.
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I will be happy when it does!!! 

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You have a few years to wait.
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I was talking to north texas yesterday. Had some skip today, georgia, alabama, and of course the carolinas on 28.
in 2012 the eworlds gonna end so dont get yer hopes up, haha
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Yeah it has been really quite here in SE Texas for a good while
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