[B-R-I] Re: Sunspots and DXing

[Kaimbridge M. GoldChild]

Our esteemed legal councilor, A. Joseph Ross, Esq., wrote,

 > Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about why lower
 > sunspots means better AM DXing.

 > I guess what's confusing me is that I've always heard that
 > with shortwave radio, higher sunspots means better propagation.
 > So why is it one way for shortwave and another for medium wave?

Right, but as I said in the other reply, while the "F-layer" promotes
"skip" on both MW and SW, the "D-layer"--which only affects MW, not 
SW--is a wet blanket, absorbing F-layer skip, and is *also* more active 
during high sunspot activity (actually it is the result of geomagnetic 
storming that sunspot activity triggers).

      ~Kaimbridge~

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