Things should be much better for a while now. Sunspot 930 threw out
four XRay-class flares (really major), a couple of which caused
major geomagnetic storms, including one from Thursday through early
Saturday. VHF and 10m operation was enhanced at times from various
propagation modes, but the lower bands were pretty much killed. There
were some magnificent Auroras reported (not here in the SF Bay area,
though where there is LOTS of light pollution).
Things should be returning to normal very soon if not already.
On Dec 17, 2006, at 6:27 AM, G. Beat wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Saunders, kJ7BS"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Elecraft
Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:36 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Bands In Sad Shape
What happened to the bands today? I hear almost nothing. I did
hear, and
work, ZF2AH this morning on 17m, but nothing else until this
evening when I
called CQ on 7.055 and I got TI2RDP responding to my call.
I did notice the A index was at 70 this morning and has fallen to
10 at 0636
UTC.
Mark, KJ7BS
Glendale, AZ
I noticed the same thing on 40 and 80 meters past 2 nights (higher
noise than usual and odd propagations). On 40 meters, I was
hearing Eastern Asia stations (one appeared to be Chinese) from
about 7.220 down to around 7.140 MHz.
Traditional regional stations were barely detectible --- almost non-
existent.
I attribute this to the 0930 region events on Sun
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events_archive.html
We have had at least one "X" event every day since December 13
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events_20061213_1008/index.html
December 17 --- region 0930 is "setting to right" from Earth's
vantage point
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events_20061217_0847/index.html
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