Topband: M flare

[Henrik Weiss]

While at 10 degr. lower in latitude 57 N. I experienced enhanced
propagation with sigs from e.g. VK3ZL peaking real 579 on my meter which
is an unbelievable strength on a rx antenna that needs attenuation.

Henrik
OZ1ING

----- Original meddelelse -----

> Fra: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm at telia.com>
> Cc: topband at contesting.com
> Dato: Tor, 21. jan 2010 14:05
> Emne: Re: Topband: M flare
> 
> At 67.5 degs North 80 and 160 was all dead last night,
> thats around 18-19 UTC. 20m was open to USA but very
> heavy flutter on signals, there was also some strong
> AEs propagation towards south west (Norway). It will
> take a while for 160 to recover.
> 
> 73 Jim SM2EKM/2 above the arctic circle
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> On 2010-01-20 23:29, Merv Schweigert wrote:
> > Not at 1330, but was monitoring 20 meters later, perhaps it was
> around
> > 2000 UTC and there was the familar "rushing" sound that peaked up
> over
> > S9 here for several minutes, the signals from EU that I was
> listening to
> > disappeared, what I use to hear in the last sunspot cycles when a
> flare
> > or event happened.
> > Did not see any improvement to LF bands here at least, 160 was
> close
> > to dead this morning at sunrise, fish beacons were 599 that usually
> signals
> > poor condtions. No signals other then FK8 were heard here.
> > 73 Merv KH7C
> >> 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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