{"id":175,"date":"2008-07-05T06:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-07-07T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:08:26","slug":"sunspots-poised-on-the-cusp-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Sunspots &#8211; Poised On The Cusp &#8211; Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, June 27th NOAA added a comment to the <a title=\"April 2007 Cycle 24 prediction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/SolarCycle\/SC24\/index.html\">&#8220;Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Issued April 2007&#8221;<\/a>. The comment basically says &#8220;that&#8217;s our story, and we&#8217;re sticking to it&#8221;. They may have fudged the graphs a bit toaccommodatethe year&#8217;s observations, but the predictions remain the same. <\/p>\n<p>Boy, I sure hope we hit that steep curve for the upper end of the &#8220;big cycle&#8221; prediction, rather than the low end of the &#8220;teeny cycle&#8221; prediction. It was fun to hear short skip openings on 15m and 10m over FD weekend. I was born decades too late to catch the &#8220;hard sky&#8221; of 1958.<\/p>\n<p>THAT would be FUN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, June 27th NOAA added a comment to the &#8220;Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Issued April 2007&#8221;. The comment basically says &#8220;that&#8217;s our story, and we&#8217;re sticking to it&#8221;. They may have fudged the graphs a bit toaccommodatethe year&#8217;s observations, but the predictions remain the same. <\/p>\n<p>Boy, I sure hope we hit that steep curve for the upper end of the &#8220;big cycle&#8221; prediction, rather than the low end of the &#8220;teeny cycle&#8221; prediction. It was fun to hear short skip openings on 15m and 10m over FD weekend. I was born decades too late to catch the &#8220;hard sky&#8221; of 1958.<\/p>\n<p>THAT would be FUN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}