Well the x6 class solar flare on 6th December looks as if it
is going to see out the contest this weekend!

 

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From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil
Scovell
Sent: 09 December 2006 01:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Sun Activity

I have always been fascinated by the sun, even as a kid.
Before going blind, I witnessed a partial sun eclipse.  I
have read lots of books and articles relating to the sun and
sun spot activity and, of course, since licensed in 1966
during a big time of solar activity with out of this world
band openings, not to mention the experience of band black
outs while on the air that lasted for a few minutes when the
light particles reached the earth and washed over the
ionosphere, I have experienced a lot of really weird band
conditions.  With the latest sun activity, I have been
wondering what might occur this go around.  The solar peaks
I have experience have been wonderful for hamming so at the
bottle of the cycles, like many HF hams, I get pretty
inactive.  The weirdest thing I ever saw, heard actually,
was an Aurora.  I turned on the rig one evening and every
signal sounded like it was under water.  I knew from working
a lot of 20 meters, that it was the sound of artic flutter
but this was really bad.  I discovered it was on every open
band.  I went down to 80 meters and tune the entire band
from 3500 on up.  Some side band signals were so watery and
echoed so badly, you could not understand what people were
saying.  It was so bad, as I tuned through the CW band, I
ran across a friend of mine calling CQ on the 80 meter CW
band who lived about 5 miles away from me.  His signal even
fluttered.  I sure hope the sun does not flare with one of
them X sized Coronal Mass Ejections when it is pointed in
our direction.  We might get a really bad sun burn so stock
up on sun block and the higher the blockage, the better.

Phil.
K0NX

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