Topband: M flare

Tree tree at kkn.net
Wed Jan 20 13:47:03 PST 2010


Some interesting reading at www.spaceweather.com:

> An M2-class solar flare on Jan. 19th bathed Earth's upper atmosphere in 
> X-rays and caused a wave of ionization to sweep over Europe. This improved 
> the propagation of low-frequency radio signals, which use the ionosphere 
> as a reflector to skip over the horizon

It looks like this peaked around 1330 UTC.  Wonder if anyone noticed strange
things happening on the band around then?

73 Tree



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