Lightning oscillations

[jimlucke]

Jim, if you're wearing 'sombreros' (Mexican Hats), you're getting skywaves... generally it's a 'skywave' if it's further than about 80lm /50mi.

I guess conditions are good for sky waves, since I am 2400 km from the Meditterranean storms. It's been 50 years since I had my ham radio rig but I remember sometimes the band is 'dead' and at other times the band was crowded with stations from all over. In fact I usually don't get good lightning signals from Italy because of the orientation of my loop, but the past few days has been busy. Then there was that signal from Kenya.
Jim