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Odd Propagation Conditions Tonight

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Schroedingers Cat

AM BC conditions at about 5:30 EST. Weak daytime skywave conditions on AM BCB at Local Sunset.

I did my usual WWV and CHU tests. 5000 kHz and 10000 kHz, rapid fading and weak signals. 15000 kHz and 20000 kHz, strong signals. CHU 3330 kHz and 7850 kHz rapid fading and weak signals. No WWV 25000 kHz heard.

Heard some strong Ham signals on 14320 kHz un USB. Couldn't ID the callsigns I thought I heard, but calls were heard in the 0 zone numerous times. With ambiguous alliterative letters, I couldn't figure it out. Thought I heard W0YZN a couple of times, but online callsign searches came up empty.
 
At 2:00 PM EST today. I checked WWV and CHU. 5000 kHz and 10000 kHz were absent or next to absent. 15000 kHz strong. 20000 kHz strong. 25000 kHz strongest. 3330 kHz was absent. 7850 kHz was present but rapidly fading. 14670 was strongest of the three. Checked CB Band. Numerous strong signals but voices were unintelligible. Tried 10 meters. A few carriers without modulation but no voice, SSB or otherwise. Tried FM but no Sporadic E noted. It would be nice if you could check Low VHF, but that's essentially gone.
 
Solar Cycle 25 so far is a dud if you live in isolated areas or the northern tier of states West of the Rockies.. I've been SWLing for several decades and never heard nothing but static on 10 Mhz until about 5 years ago, and since then it's been a tossup between a weak WWV, WWVH and no WWV, or neither. Very odd. And although there have been a few bright spots over the past year or so, prop still is bouncing off the bottom when compared to 2011, 2012, the rough equivalent of where we are supposed to be now.

I realize that in more southern latitudes, and areas east of the Rockies the reception is a bit better.

The 'local' bright spot is that Asia still comes into the PNW in the morning -- reception, of course, varying on a daily basis.
 
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