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Title: Excitement on 10 and 15 Meters This Weekend - October 25-26, 2014 Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on October 23, 2014, 07:17:39 PM A series of large solar flares erupted this week. The most powerful was an X1.6 flare on October 22. The sunspot is now directly facing Earth. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
The predicted solar flux for this weekend is 220, higher than on any day since January 7. Prior to that, we didn't see solar flux values this high since late October 2003. Accompanying the high solar flux back then was a great deal of geomagnetic activity. But, WAIT, there's more: The CQ World Wide DX Phone Contest is this weekend: http://www.cqww.com/rules.htm Rub elbows with all the contesters in places on the band where we normally operate AM. (http://www3.arrl.org/nl/al/image/Solar%20Disk%202014-10-23.jpg) |