[RTTY] More X Class Flares

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

Sunspot group #10649 at S10E27 has now released five X class solar flares in the past 24 hours, the most recent one an X3.6 at approximately 1355 UTC this morning. Even bigger X class solar flares are probably going to occur. There have also been nine M class solar flares. It would seem that at least one geo-effective Earth facing) Coronal Mass Ejection must be enroute to our magnetic field. 

It's entirely probable that a sizeable geomagnetic storm will occur during the RTTY contest this weekend. Not to mention radio blackouts on the daylight side of the planet.

73,
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL, USA
Grid Square EL87WX
Lat & Long 27 58 31 44N 82 09 51 98W

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KN4LF HF/MF Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm


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