Slow Week

It’s been the slowest radio week for me in months. A few days of storms kept the feed lines disconnected. We hosted family for Easter, meaning I had to pack away all my radio equipment much of the weekend so my office could be used as spillover for food and storage. And then the band conditions seem to really stink every day I try to get on the air.

I thought I understood the relationship between propagation and the solar cycle from my SWL days. But, wow, it seems like we went from terrific conditions last fall into the early winter into terrible conditions in a matter of weeks. In some ways I began my HF career at the best time in the waning days of the top of the cycle, with daily DX openings on 10 meters. In others, in terms of setting expectations, it may have been the worst time.

I upload my logs to Logbook of the World every Monday morning. This morning I added just 12 new QSOs. Hoping for a better week ahead…