On Mar 22, 4:34*pm, dave wrote:
On 3/22/2011 9:15 AM, bpnjensen wrote:









...last night reception here in California was odd. *A rising K-index
apparently resulted in lots of noise and very squirrely propagation,
like the ionosphere was randomly red hot and ice cold. *For the most
part, the lower bands were totally NG - 60/75/90 all were nearly dead
through 0700z. *41 and 49 were not much better, with only the
strongest big boys punching through, and even then not very strongly.
Despite the SFI up to 105, Most stations were a couple S-units below
their usual levels, with a few minor exceptions on 25m and 31m.

The exception was R. Educacion in Mexico City, 6185 khz. *Usually a
difficult station here, with low modulation and battered by the big
relays on either side of it, last night it outshone them all, with a
20 over S-9 signal, crystal clear fidelity and magnificent
steadiness. *I have a hard time believing it was propagation alone
that did this - but unless they suddenly found a 100-kW transmitter
lying around, I'm not sure how they managed this signal.

Things are getting interesting :-)

Wait a couple more days.

I agree - things could get pretty hot by this weekend.