spaceweather.com says that the X-rays from a flare that happened January 13 "ionized Earth's upper atmosphere over Australia and the Indian Ocean. Mariners and ham radio operators may have noticed a brief communications blackout at frequencies below about 10 MHz." That flare peaked about 0424Z, which would be the 11:25 PM EST Jan 11 the NASA link talked about.

There won't be a CME, so that won't bother us, at least.

On 01/13/2015 11:44 AM, Michael Wrenn via BVARC wrote:
That link doesn't contain any useful info, but a bit of searching uncovered that the flare wasn't facing us and therefore shouldn't cause any interference or noise issues.
http://www.solarham.net/solarflares.htm

Seven Three,

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