so much for the two states I do not have this week. tat is why  HF is a disaster. there were NO stations on 40 an hour ago, and are only 2 now in total on the whole band.
Michael Thurman
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On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> BlankSolar storm heading for Earth By Doyle Rice USA TODAY A solar flare 
> that launched off the sun Wednesday afternoon could wreak havoc with 
> communications systems and power systems on the Earth, as well as with 
> satellites in orbit, in coming days. Forecasters with NOAA's Space Weather 
> Prediction Center said the flare already "caused impacts to high-frequency 
> radio communications on Earth today," according to NOAA. "A coronal mass 
> ejection (CME) associated with this event is likely, but further analysis is 
> necessary to determine whether it will produce geomagnetic storming on 
> Earth. A coronal mass ejection contains billions of tons of energetic 
> hydrogen and helium ions as well as protons and electrons ejected from the 
> sun's surface. If a CME occurred, Earth's magnetosphere will likely be 
> disturbed and a geomagnetic storm could result in the next few days, NOAA 
> reports. NOAA space weather forecaster Bill Murtagh said that scientists 
> will know more about when and where the impacts will be when more data comes 
> in later Wednesday and early Thursday. The flare is on the high end of the 
> solar flare scale. One nice side effect of the solar storm is an expansion 
> of the photogenic aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, across Canada and the 
> northern U.S. The Northern Lights appear when atoms in the Earth's 
> high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the 
> sun. They usually appear as shimmering green waves of light in the nighttime 
> sky in polar latitudes. Much more rarely, they can be red and even blue.