No sunspots have been observed in the period November 18 to 26.
According to the ARRL, we had our last glimpse of sunspot group 1008 as it was about to slip over our sun's western horizon on November 18. No sunspots have emerged since then, but it seems a reasonable assumption that we will see more cycle 24 spots, but we do not know when. There is a prediction from USAF/NOAA that shows solar flux rising to 70 on December 8-9, and perhaps this is just tracking a possible reappearance of the region that birthed sunspot group 1007, which we saw in the sun's southern hemisphere from October 30 through November 6.
Propagation into Melbourne continues to be very good during our mid afternoon period, 0300-0500, with many shortpath signals from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa on 19 metres, and long path from the same regions on 49, 41, 31, 22 and 25 metres.
Here is a summary of spectrum occupancies, with comments, as observed on November 27.
Summary 1 – 0400-0600
9650 BBC, Meyerton, 0435 English
12060 Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, 0440 Turkish
15160 Radio Romania International, opening at 0500 with the daytime service to China, in Mandarin. Poor frequency coordination, due to Radio Australia, Shepparton, also using this channel for the same target area
13720 Sudan Radio Service, Dhabbaya, 0500-0530* Arabic
13800 Radio Dabanga, Madagascar, 0505 Arabic
15185 All India Radio, 0510-0530* Hindi
15205 DW, Dhabbaya, 0510 Russian
15285 BSKSA, Riyadh, 0515 Swahili
15335 R. Free Afghanistan, Kuwait, 0515 Farsi
15415 CNR, Minorities Network, 0520 Kazakh
15600 DW, Dhabbaya, 0500-0530 English
15610 CVC, Tashkent, 0515 English
15690 R. Farda, Iranawela, 0500 Farsi
21540 RFA, Tinian, 0445 Mandarin
Summary 2 – 1900-2200
6010 R. Tirana, *1900 Serbo-Croatian
7225 NHK, Issoudin, *2200 Japanese
11790 RFA, Saipan, 1945 Mandarin
11955 AWR, Nauen, 1940 Arabic
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