Over last week, there have been plenty of days where the 10m has been practically dead all day. So it came as a bit of a surprise when there was a nice short opening on Saturday the 23rd of January 2021.
The main opening was when there was some Sporadic-E in the evening time. What was unusual was the fact that there was short skip from here to the east of the UK, a distance of about 500-600kms.
I had a listen for some QRSS signals when the skip went short and I got this screen grab...
Despite the fact that we are now 13 months in the new sunspot cycle, the solar flux was only 78 today. Was the surge in sunspots last November just a false dawn?
I suspect conditions on north-south paths on 10m should pick up in March and after that, we're into the start of the Sporadic-E season in late April.
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