{"id":7373,"date":"2021-12-10T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/where-is-sunspot-cycle-25\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:06","slug":"where-is-sunspot-cycle-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/where-is-sunspot-cycle-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Sunspot Cycle 25?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The other day I was complaining to Pete N6QW that 17 meters still seems to be in very poor shape. I can hear 6Y6Y around mid day, but I don’t often hear Europeans. I did year my friend Mike EI0CL yesterday on 17, but conditions were not good. Pete asked, “Where is Cycle 25?” Good question. The Space Weather Center has the answer. <\/b><\/div>\n

Their Solar Cycle Progression page<\/a> is up-to-date. With the slider below each chart you can go back as far as 1750. Check out Cycle 19. I was born near the peak (TRGHS). Pete was on the air during that cycle. Cycle 23 also looked pretty good. I was out in the Azores then (2000-2003) — no wonder I could work VK and ZL with a 5 watt DSB rig. <\/b><\/p>\n

I like the little solar conditions widget that has appeared in the left hand column of this page, and I am grateful to the provider, but the widget just doesn’t update regularly. So I think I’m going to switch to a link<\/a> from the Space Weather Prediction Center that shows the numbers we really need: Solar Flux Index (SFI), Sunspot Number (SN), A index, K index. (Please let me know what you think about this change.) <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is the link to the Solar Cycle Progression Charts (be sure to use the sliders): <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/products\/solar-cycle-progression<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I was complaining to Pete N6QW that 17 meters still seems to be in very poor shape. I can hear 6Y6Y around mid day, but I don’t often hear Europeans. I did year my friend Mike EI0CL yesterday on 17, but conditions were not good. Pete asked, “Where is Cycle 25?” Good … Continue reading “Where is Sunspot Cycle 25?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,41,27,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azores","category-juliano-pete","category-propagation","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}