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Originally Posted by dave
http://www.solarham.com/
SOLAR FLARE ALERT:
A long duration event reaching M3.2 took place Thursday morning starting
at 14:30 UTC.
The eruption was centered around Sunspot 1402 and produced a large CME.
Stay Tuned.
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That is a double edge sword.
You can get increased propagation when it hits, or you can get a total blackout - like we have had the last couple of days.
The last time I looked, the solar index was only about 88 - which is not good if you want to work 10 meters.
There has been days where you can't hardly hear anything on the 80 meters during the day here and the 40 meters was just as bad and the 20 meters was almost impossible to hear.
At the same time, when the HF bands drops off, the VHF and UHF Propagation increases. A good time to work SSB 2 meters.....