SEATTLE, WA, Aug 19, 2005--Not much solar activity occurred
over the past week. A few days ago Earth entered a solar wind
stream which raised geomagnetic activity, but not to the level of a
storm.

Sunspot numbers and solar flux are expected to remain low but rise
moderately again around August 26 and through the end of the
month. Geomagnetic conditions should stay mild, with unsettled
conditions returning around August 23-26.

Frank Donovan, W3LPL, of Glenwood, Maryland sent in some
interesting Web links (1) (2) regarding 6 meters and sporadic E
propagation. On the k1six.com link, the dates may be a bit
confusing, because the title says the graph covers the period from
1995 to present, but the dates along the X axis run from early May
to the present. This graph shows cumulative activity during May
through August over the past decade, so the data isn't just from this
year. It illustrates when sporadic E propagation across the Atlantic
is the most common--in late June and early July.

We get reports of TV and FM DX during sporadic E season and
sometimes mention them in the bulletin. Doug Allen, W0AH, of
Woodland Park, Colorado, wrote to say that receiving FM and TV
stations from more than 1000 miles away via sporadic E is fairly common in the
summer. He has
personally logged more than 3000 FM broadcast stations via sporadic E, and a few
hundred of
those were 1450-1500 miles distant.

For more information concerning radio propagation and an explanation of the
numbers used in
this bulletin see the ARRL Technical Information Service Propagation page. An
archive of past
bulletins is on the ARRL Web site.

Sunspot numbers for August 11 through 17 were 35, 47, 33, 34, 49, 48 and 42,
with a mean of
41.1. The 10.7 cm flux was 75.9, 76.2, 75.4, 74.8, 75.8, 75.8 and 77, with a
mean of 75.8.
Estimated planetary A indices were 6, 6, 16, 10, 8, 19 and 18, with a mean of
11.9. Estimated
mid-latitude A indices were 2, 3, 14, 6, 6, 12 and 11, with a mean of 7.7.

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/08/19/2/?nc=1

(K7RA, ARRL)

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I "noted" the passing of Phil Klass in this news group about three weeks
ago when I had read the article at www.rense.com about Phil Klass
had passed away.Actually,I haden't ever read about him before then and I
didn't know who he was untill I read that article at rense.com.I think
Phil Klass was an A OK guy though.
cuhulin