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Bert and Nick,
Bert.....I've done well on domestics during the
summer also and likewise would suggest others try all year long. My
mottos sort has been "you must listen to receive"! hi. I'm sure progress
is slowed down as one reaches the magic bubble of having 95.3% +/- of all the
possible stations, but summer and the off seasons can be surprising at
times.
Nick.... What a selfless plug for the CD of IRCA
reprints! Did I say "CD of IRCA reprints"? hi. Yes, guilt has overcome
me........
With regards to below, again, I should study up
more on the solar indices etc. to see what I've been missing. I should
know all this already but for some reason I've bypassed this area of
observation in the past. I'm looking forward to a more educated DX
season.
Thanks......
73- Doug
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:55
PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 20 questions about
annual DX conditions
At 14:08 18/07/2006, you wrote:
Hi All,
How
consistant (by date) has the beginning of the DX season been through-out the
years?
Patrick and Bill have given a very good
snapshot of year by year conditions. Bruce Portzer also did a good
article some years ago based on loggings that clearly showed the sluggish DX
returns in mid-winter for Asiatics and Down Unders (IRCA reprint T054; what
you don't have the CD of IRCA reprints? contact Lee right
away...)
Years of low sunspot number, like right now, are most likely
to deliver good high latitude conditions, and I wouldn't be surprised if the
Asiatic big guns start showing in the Pacific Northwest in the next few weeks
if we can drag ourselves out of bed for sunrise. There are
carriers there already for the short period that we have a darkness
path. In high sunspot years, the first high latitude receptions
seem to occur later in September, with receptions of Australia being more
common in late August/early September. And although low A-indices are
not necessarily an indicator for good high latitude conditions, especially in
midwinter, they do give a hint of good conditions in the fall and
spring.
When a geomagnetic storm kicks in, check for stations from the
Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia, especially as the storm gets
underway. Unfortunately, as Patrick mentioned, down under signals
ain't what they used to be, and South Americans are very hard to find, though
that lack is at least partly due to more domestic interference (remember the
loggings of Argentina on 1620 before Atmore, AL signed on and wiped them out
with its mighty 1 kw?)
good luck this
season.
Nick
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Nick
Hall-Patch
Victoria, B.C.
Canada
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