Sunday 19th December 2021: I noticed early this morning that conditions seemed reasonably good on 28 MHz just after the band opened. As an experiment, I decided to leave the radio on the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz to see just how many station I could hear for the day.
The result was 595 stations in 58 DXCC countries on 28 MHz which is a major improvement on recent conditions.
Just a week ago during the ARRL 10m contest, conditions were awful with the solar flux down at 80.
A few days ago, a new group of sunspots appeared on the western limb of the sun and the solar flux has jumped to 121. I'm sure there must be a lot of contesters who are wishing that these sunspots appeared a week earlier.
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