Xref: utzoo rec.ham-radio.packet:946 rec.ham-radio:3973 sci.electronics:2187 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb.ucdavis.edu!ccs016 From: ccs016@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Patrick Tully pstully@ucdavis) Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics Subject: Re: low power license free packet? Keywords: Allocatitng Citizen's-Band space for packet radio Message-ID: <1175@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 17 Feb 88 22:07:05 GMT References: <8802111609.AA16271@decwrl.dec.com> <440@n8emr.UUCP> <1983@saturn.ucsc.edu> <210@ritcv.UUCP> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: ccs016@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Patrick Tully pstully@ucdavis) Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 39 In article <210@ritcv.UUCP> cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: > > >Now, a question: I was once told that the sunspot period relative to CB >radios is about 40 years, and that we are now on the upside of the curve. >I was told that this means in about 10 years the range we will get from >C.B. will be at least quadruple what it is now. Is this true? > > Christopher E. Piggott I've heard this too. I believe it is true. The peak should start somewhere around 1991. This is also the time when California is suppose to have another predicted drought. Which makes sense because the last highest CB activity was from 1976 to 1978 and this was the years when California had its drought. I know that the time interval from the last skip activity to 1991 is not 40 years, but what was experienced in 1976 to 1978 was a shorter skip cycle. (~10 years) From my observations, CB also experiences a smaller scip cycle around 23 days (around there) The skip activity during 1976 - 1978 from what I've been told by people was great, but made talking local impossible. The conditions during those years made many people interested in CB, but also forced a lot of people to stop using radios. So, I'm guessing that around 1991 the skip conditions will be better on CB than 1976-1978, but they will also force many people off the radio. Presently on 27 mhz the skip is rolling in. This fits with the 23 day summer type day cycle. (warm afternoons, lots of sun). It has been this way for about 4 days. From Northern California people from the east coast are easily heard in the morining through 5pm, then people from the southern western states and Canada our heard, and at around 6:30 Hawaii and Australia are heard for only about 30 to 40 minutes. And around 7:00 or 7:300 the airwaves are dead. This experimenting was done on Side band using a 3 beamed yagi, horizontal. * Patrick Tully * {{seismo|ihnp4!}lll-crg|sdcsvax|{decvax!}ucbvax}!ucdavis!pstully * pstully@ucdavis BITNET