{"id":1243,"date":"2012-04-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/we-need-more-sunspots\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:07:09","slug":"we-need-more-sunspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/we-need-more-sunspots\/","title":{"rendered":"We need more sunspots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/latestsoho.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/latestsoho.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729098112156922466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Conditions on 17 meters are bad today. I pulled out my 6 inch reflector telescope to do some troubleshooting on ol&#8217; sol. Yea, just as I thought: one measly sunspot. Confirmed by the SOHO image above. <\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">There was a discussion on QRP-L recently about historical solar flux data. I started wondering what the SFI was on the day I was born. A few clicks with google brought the answer: On September 14, 1958 SFI was close to 300. Today it was 94. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Something should be done about this! Write to your Congressman! Demand more solar activity! <br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions on 17 meters are bad today. I pulled out my 6 inch reflector telescope to do some troubleshooting on ol&#8217; sol. Yea, just as I thought: one measly sunspot. Confirmed by the SOHO image above. There was a discussion on QRP-L recently about historical solar flux data. I started wondering what the SFI was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/we-need-more-sunspots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We need more sunspots!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,80,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propagation","category-solar-cycle","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}