[NZ4O Spaceweather] New M Class Solar Flare

[Dave Cole]

Hi,

I used my 756 PRO III, a low dipole, (so as to force the pattern up, as
opposed to out to the side...  Cloud Warmer...  All on 20 MHz.

A program called S-METER Lite, and Excel to graph it...  The odd thing
was that this morning when I started it, I was just trying to see if I
could even see noise changes.  I really did not expect to see much,
then saw the post about the flare at 1722, looked at the graph and
there was a very clear disturbance in the graph.

Dave
NK7Z

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:46:48 -0500
"doc at kd4e.com" <doc at kd4e.com> wrote:

> What do you use to monitor via a noise level graph, please?
> 
> > Here is an interesting item...  I was monitoring 20 MHz., noise at
> > that time...  Flare is clearly visible in the noise level graph.  If
> > interested I can post it somewhere...
> >
> > Dave NK7Z
> >
> >
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> > 12:33:24 -0500 "Thomas F. Giella NZ4O"<solarcycle24 at tampabay.rr.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> We just had another large M class solar flare explosion at
> >> approximately 1727 UTC on February 14, 2011. It produced a sudden
> >> ionospheric disturbance (SID) and attendant radio blackout that
> >> has wiped out the shortwave radio spectrum as high as approximately
> >> 10000 khz.
> >>
> >> 73&  GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA
> >> solarcycle24 at tampabay.rr.com
> 

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