In article .com,
"Steve" wrote:

I need to learn more about the various solar indices and propagation. I
saw on the web that the K-index at mid-latitudes today measured a 2,
and a low k-index, as I understand it, is good for HF propagation.
However, it seems like propagation is quite poor at the moment. Tonight
was the first night in a long time I didn't hear Radio Romania on 9690,
and though there is a lot of atmospheric noise right now at my
location, it wasn't enough to blot out the signal I ordinarily receive
from Radio Romania.

Time to hit the books!

It's not any harder than reading the gauges on your dash board.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
and
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

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Telamon
Ventura, California