Jolly Roger #135 Central England booming in here in NC on channel 19. Said he was on a five element yagi with 700 watts.
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11 meter is very quiet?
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Jolly Rancher England ch19 am just a few ago. Ireland is hammering 38lsb
S&W357
$upporting Member KO4RJD....WDX-556
Good QSO’s with stations in New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Washington.
Nice contacts with Chicago and Saskatchewan Canada. First trip to Canada!!!
Very busy here now but the Tarzan calls don't help any....
North East coming into Central Texas, first QSO with an Alaska station, 1031 operator Mel 38LSB, had several Australia stations yesterday on 38 but no QSO , lot of South America stations on 27.5550 USB yesterday also
Man I'm missing out on all the fun I guess.... Got called into work on a hot one so not much time on the base. Am is booming on 19 though, can't keep up with all the dx I'm hearing
A few more QSO’s before conditions changed and the Rams game started. North Dakota and eastern Tennessee. Modded power mic doing a good job.
Major solar flare is doing a number on my radio. Six to seven S-Units of noise and all kinds of weird sounds. Basically blacked out. Heard transatlantic on 11 meter early this morning here in NC, and then around 9:30 AM est. nothing but lots of noise.
Try turning the RF gain down a bit. You will still hear stations but with less noise. Ha ha..the weird sounds of skip! Wish I could get transatlantic but that’s just too darn far for my neck of the woods.
11 meter propagation has been good for a week or so, made SSB contacts in Newfoundland and Costa Rica today, Montego Bay yesterday. All barefoot from the Midwest.
This would explain the UK this morning
MAJOR SOLAR FLARE: Earlier today (Nov. 29th at 1311UT), Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this extreme-ultraviolet movie of the M4.4 category blast:
X-rays and UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, producing a shortwave radio blackout over the South Atlantic: map. Ham radio operators and mariners may have noticed strange propagation effects at frequencies below 20 MHz, with some transmissions below 10 MHz completely extinquished.
Remarkably, this flare was even bigger than it seems. The blast site is located just behind the sun's southeastern limb. As a result, the explosion was partially eclipsed by the body of the sun. It might have been an X-class event.
The flare also hurled a significant coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, shown here in a coronagraph image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
This CME will not hit Earth. It is outside the strikezone for geoeffective solar storms. If, however, it were coming our way, we would be anticipating a strong geomagnetic storm. Maybe next time!
"Next time" could be just days away. The hidden sunspot that produced this major event will rotate onto the Earthside of the sun during the next day or two. Then its ability to spark geomagnetic storms will be greatly increased.
MAJOR SOLAR FLARE: Earlier today (Nov. 29th at 1311UT), Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this extreme-ultraviolet movie of the M4.4 category blast:
X-rays and UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, producing a shortwave radio blackout over the South Atlantic: map. Ham radio operators and mariners may have noticed strange propagation effects at frequencies below 20 MHz, with some transmissions below 10 MHz completely extinquished.
Remarkably, this flare was even bigger than it seems. The blast site is located just behind the sun's southeastern limb. As a result, the explosion was partially eclipsed by the body of the sun. It might have been an X-class event.
The flare also hurled a significant coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, shown here in a coronagraph image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
This CME will not hit Earth. It is outside the strikezone for geoeffective solar storms. If, however, it were coming our way, we would be anticipating a strong geomagnetic storm. Maybe next time!
"Next time" could be just days away. The hidden sunspot that produced this major event will rotate onto the Earthside of the sun during the next day or two. Then its ability to spark geomagnetic storms will be greatly increased.
S&W357
$upporting Member KO4RJD....WDX-556
Wow! So you actually heard me!
Wow!!!! That’s some crazy stuff. It made our day great out west!!