{"id":2876,"date":"2013-08-06T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecngx342.inmotionhosting.com\/~hcraor5\/\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T21:37:16","slug":"solar-cycle-24-is-nearing-its-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Solar Cycle 24 is nearing its peak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to NASA, our present solar cycle, #24, will peak in the next few months. This peak is accompanied by a reversal of the sun&#8217;s magnetic field. Although this hasn&#8217;t been an outstanding solar cycle it is still way better then the minimums! We have a few years of decent propagation ahead of us yet, so don&#8217;t despair!<\/p>\n<p>Now is a good time to plan those 160, 80 and 40 meter arrays you&#8217;ve been dreaming of building. Those are the bands to be on when the minimum approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a very informative video from NASA explaining the sun&#8217;s magnetic field (and a lot of other stuff too)!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/34gNgaME86Y\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/34gNgaME86Y\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/34gNgaME86Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you on the bands!<\/p>\n<p>Jim\/KK1W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to NASA, our present solar cycle, #24, will peak in the next few months. This peak is accompanied by a reversal of the sun&#8217;s magnetic field. Although this hasn&#8217;t been an outstanding solar cycle it is still way better then the minimums! We have a few years of decent propagation ahead of us yet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[116,278,321],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas-and-towers","category-dxnews","tag-cycle-24","tag-propagation","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}