{"id":8809,"date":"2012-01-15T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/sunspots-as-good-as-its-going-to-get\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:23:27","slug":"sunspots-as-good-as-its-going-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/sunspots-as-good-as-its-going-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunspots:  As Good As It&#8217;s Going to Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dec2011Sunspots.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dec2011Sunspots.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697822179876776754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The good news is that conditions are not a lot better than they have been. The bad news is that they won&#8217;t be getting much better. But take heart guys: the next few years should be pretty good. Now is the time to get those rigs and antennas for the upper HF bands in shape. Construction of a second 17 meter JBOT amplifier begins today (this one for the Azores SSB transmitter). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>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>The good news is that conditions are not a lot better than they have been. The bad news is that they won&#8217;t be getting much better. But take heart guys: the next few years should be pretty good. Now is the time to get those rigs and antennas for the upper HF bands in shape. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/sunspots-as-good-as-its-going-to-get\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunspots:  As Good As It&#8217;s Going to Get&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propagation","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","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=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}