Enjoy!!!
It will be interesting to hear what we find listening in different parts of 
the world.


> On Saturday the Solar Flux Index (SFI) jumped up over 200, the first
> time this has happened in Solar Cycle 24.  The record SFI for the
> current cycle was 190, which was set on September 24, 2011 during the
> first peak of cycle 24.  We are clearly experiencing a second peak as
> the SFI hit 215 on Saturday and 218 yesterday.  The SFI is expected to
> remain over 200 for the next week (220, 220, 215, 215, 215, 205 and
> 200 - Monday through Sunday).  The last time the SFI was above 200 was
> during Solar Cycle 23 in late October 2003, for about a week ranging
> from 210 to 298.  W3LPL, Frank Donovan, remembers the "Solar flux
> above 200 was common twelve years ago during the second peak of solar
> cycle 23, especially during the four months from mid-Oct 2001 through
> mid-Feb 2002.  Our Six Meter operators will remember "the last period
> of almost daily transatlantic F layer propagation" which was from mid-
> October 2001 through mid-February 2002.  So keep an eye on the higher
> bands this week, including 50 MHz!
>
> 


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