@freemo Wonder how it compares to the legendary Cycle 21 in the late 1970s when I was a new ham. 11m CBers were making contacts with VK & ZL when 27MHz CB was still illegal in both. Not unusual for 4 watt AM mobiles using loaded short verticals in the middle of the US to be working base stations with verticals in ZL & VK.
Sadly while we are well past the expected maxima for this cycle overall this cycle is nothing impressive compared to some of the bigger cycles of the past... yet... time will tell
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