Daytime signals

All,

To Rob Wagner, hope you are better!

Now that Spring has arrived, daytime signal patterns have changed
dramatically!

Solar activity remains low, with the 10 cm radio flux at 133, and the daily
smoothed sunspot number down to 87. Solar Cycle 24 is expected to peak late
in 2013, but actual levels will not be as high as in previous cycles.

For the time being, long haul multi-hop propagation into Melbourne across
darkness, or semi-darkness paths, above about 12 MHz is very chancy!

I have been preoccupied with house maintenance, repairs, landscaping, and
repainting the external woodwork!

I've also been working on my new on-line Heritage Project " The Forests of
Warburton", which will be published very soon. This will be followed by "The
Mont Albert Neighbourhood", "The O'Shannassy Aqueduct and Weir", "The Upper
Yarra Reservoir", and "The Victorian Alps".

I am setting up a Facebook Group about my local neighbourhood.

Bought a new replacement FujiFilm S2980 digital camera for $150 direct from
Hong Kong - arrived in two days, free postage! The same item is currently on
sale at "special discount" for $230 here in Melbourne, at Big-W and DSE!
Have been using a small $20 Chinese digital camera, which gives good results
in bright sunlight, but hopeless in low ambient light situations.

The following are some items of September 6, made on my birthday!

0700-0730

9330 USA WBCQ English
9595 JAPAN R . Nikkei, Japanese
13635 TURKEY VOT Turkish
13685 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin Hausa
13695 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin French
13710 ALBANIA CRI-English

0130-0200

11520 USA WBCQ English
11620 INDIA AIR
" CHINA CNR2
11760 IRAN VOIRI Spanish
" CHINA CNR1
11945 CHINA CRI-Kunming Amoy
" UAE RFE-Dhabbaya Uyghur
12060 ARMENIA VOR-Yerevan Spanish
13610 CHINA CNR1
15100 CHINA CRI-Beijing Amoy
15510 THAILAND BBC-Nakhon Urdu
15710 CHINA CNR6 Amoy
17565 CHINA CNR1
17625 CHINA CNR2
17635 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Uyghur
17685 SINGAPORE BBC-Kranji English
17730 MONGOLIA RFA-Ulaan Bataar Mongolian

Regards from Uncle Bob