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Keithinatlanta
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 4:42 pm: | 
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I continue to hear about the changing of the guard on Sunspot Activity. Would some of you educated folks explain what is going on and how it will affect our signals on CB bands, as well as ham bands for next few months or even years?
Thanks for the education.
Keith in Atlanta |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 12:13 am: |
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OK sunspots 101
they run in 11 year cycles right now we are on the down side about 1/2 way so in 6 years we will be on the up side and in 9 years at peek again.
The MUF (MAX USEABLE FREUQENCY) when they are peak can get all the way to the 2 METER BAND! 144 mhz and at the bottom not go higher than 14 mhz.
A sign that the MUF is very high is skip which is usaly 1000-3000 miles is as short as 200 miles !
thats it! |
Tech808
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 1:01 am: |
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OK, SUNSPOTS LESSON #2
Please go to the link below and Read.
http://www.copperelectronics.com/sunspot.html
OR
Go to the MAIN Copper Page and scroll down to the bottom and Click on "Sunspot Cycle Report".
We are in Sunspot cycle # 23 It will bottom out in 2006 and then start back up in it's 11 year cycle.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
For the Next 3 years it is only going to get WORSE! 
And it Will affect Everyone, Everywhere, on every Band / Frequency.
This is where your Radio's, Antenna's and Coax will really come in to play.
Check them all and make sure they are at 100% as you will need the Best setup possible to get out and be heard.
I sure am glad the Forummaster included this link on the Sun Spot Cycle the Copper Main Page to answer Sun Spot Cycle Questions.
The Forummaster makes it very easy on the rest of us common folk's. 
Lon
Tech808 
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RCI 2990
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 1:01 am: |
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............and you cant talk 5 miles away but you can talk 5K mile away!!!!!! LOL!!!
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Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 8:39 am: |
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And LON realy will have to strain to hear me!
......... as if he dosn't already ..........
hey the inverted icecream cone goes up to day if it stops raining!
Bruce |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 11:13 am: |
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CB'ing actually picks up in my part of the country when the skip/sunspots are on the down cycle. The CB radio is a reliable form of communication again, base or mobile. When it's at a high peak, the only thing that's reliable is skip. People here are already turning those base stations on again at night, you can actually here some conversations, instead of skip noise. scrapiron |
Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 1:36 pm: |
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Scrapiron63
You couldn't be more correct. When the DX is gone, local long-distance communications will be great. And that is when you will find out what your system is REALLY capable of.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
Codeman
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 2:03 pm: |
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Amen I hate all that noise |
Codeman
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 2:09 pm: |
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Thats the beauty of ham radio. If you want local go vhf,uhf if you want dx then go hf. you are not stuck or dependant on just one band like on cb so in a nut shell sunspot lows dont bother me I just switch to a lower band then as the years go by and the solar storms increase and the muf moves up then so do I. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 7:44 pm: |
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there are 2 cb bands |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 11:10 pm: |
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There were a few spots today i was hearing skip in 11 and some on 10 meters...... ill be lissing tomorrow ch 13LSB |
Codeman
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 10:49 am: |
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What is the other? I dont think you mean that 400 somthing band do you bruce?? |
Bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 3:32 pm: |
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MURS
the Memorandum Opinion and Order and Second Report and Order released May 23, 2002, the Commission updated the service rules regarding five Industrial/Business Pool VHF frequencies known in the PLMR community as the VHF “color dot” frequencies. These frequencies were moved from Part 90 to Part 95 and became a new Citizens Band Radio Service (CB) named the Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS). The Commission defines MURS as a private, two-way, short-distance voice or data communications service for personal or business activities of the general public. |
codeman
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 6:04 pm: |
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Ok I guess I was not aware of such a band. Ill have to read up on that. Thanks bruce. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 7:24 pm: |
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im on it almost every day range LEAGAL radios moble to base we get 7-11 miles |
Tech808
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 7:30 pm: |
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codeman,
GO to the left of this column to the Search Area and click on "By Keyword" then type in "MURS"
It will bring up quite a few posts on the MURS Bands and Radios.
Lon
Tech808 |
codeman
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 9:21 pm: |
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Ok thanks Lon I will check it out. |
