From VK3gom This is one of those ,"Good News-Bad News" scenarios. > > The good news: > NASA scientists,and others are predicting that Solar Cycle 24 will be the > biggest and longest cycle in the past 40 years,which will make for > fantastic> DX conditions. > > The bad news: > The current Solar Cycle 23 is running long and is just now starting to > bottom out. > > Predictions are for Solar activity not to increase until late 2007. >> Ed N4ZUM