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"Michael" wrote:

"John Doty" wrote in message
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Michael wrote:
22:30 UTC 05/10/04

What is with propagation right now ???

I checked out http://hfradio.org/propagation.html

They state that there is a sunspot group:

"24 (NOAA 0606) is the most active as it produced a B4.4 flare."

A class B flare is barely a peep. Need a least a class M (100X
stronger) to have much effect.


Is that why I'm finding that the 49, 41, 31 meter bands all
messed up
???
Massive fade out of usually very strong and relaible signals that
are falling below the noise floor at times.

I see neither significant solar activity nor magnetospheric
disturbance at http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html.

Ionospheric soundings at
http://digisonde.haystack.edu/latestFrames.htm look normal.

-jpd


I wonder if there is some sort of local noise source that is causing
this here... I even tried three different radios to make sure I
wasn't dealing with an electronics problem. I'm hearing a loud
hiss that is drowning out the signals. I can describe the hiss as
exactly what it sounds like when there is lightning, but this hiss is
lasting for long periods of time. The signal levels of stations like
WWCR 9475 and BBC on 5975 are going from strong and clear to barely
audible above the noise I'm hearing. As the "hiss" gets louder and
stronger, the signal strength cuts out and I can't hear anything over
the hiss. I don't ever remember this happening before, especially on
such strong and reliable signals. This is weird.

Time to start snooping around with a portable radio.

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Telamon
Ventura, California