Last night on 40 meters had pretty good DX conditions about 10 pm EST. Worked some stations in Europe and Central America.
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The sun is firing, yet no skip :(
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BJ radionut
Supporting Member and 6m addict
2021 Aug 31 1230 UTC
# Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
Solar Activity
.24 hr Summary...
Solar activity was low. Region 2860 (S27W51, Eki/beta) produced
a few C-flares the first half of the period, the largest of which was a
C3 flare observed at the GOES-16 satellite at 30/2134 UTC. Region 2859
(N18W60, Axx/alpha) was stable and inactive. No new Earth-directed CMEs
were observed.
.Forecast...
Solar activity is expected to reach low levels, with a chance for R1-R2
(Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts on 31 Aug.
.Forecast...
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled conditions
on 31 Aug with minor, intermittent influences from the 26 Aug CME that
is passing south of Earth.
Northeast Maryland Amateur Radio Club (NEMARC) and Contest Society (NEMARCS)
See even with SFI @ 90 / Sunspot # 41
The MUF(maximum usable freq.) ONLY 16 MHz
# Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
Solar Activity
.24 hr Summary...
Solar activity was low. Region 2860 (S27W51, Eki/beta) produced
a few C-flares the first half of the period, the largest of which was a
C3 flare observed at the GOES-16 satellite at 30/2134 UTC. Region 2859
(N18W60, Axx/alpha) was stable and inactive. No new Earth-directed CMEs
were observed.
.Forecast...
Solar activity is expected to reach low levels, with a chance for R1-R2
(Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts on 31 Aug.
.Forecast...
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled conditions
on 31 Aug with minor, intermittent influences from the 26 Aug CME that
is passing south of Earth.
Northeast Maryland Amateur Radio Club (NEMARC) and Contest Society (NEMARCS)
See even with SFI @ 90 / Sunspot # 41
The MUF(maximum usable freq.) ONLY 16 MHz
Ok, now this is just getting ridiculous already. Solar flux is 101, SN=80, A=7, K=3.
And dead silent. This whole weekend too. Very very irritating. Stupid sun, cmon man lets do this already. If its gonna be like this from now on im seriously going to contemplate quiting the 11m hobby.
And dead silent. This whole weekend too. Very very irritating. Stupid sun, cmon man lets do this already. If its gonna be like this from now on im seriously going to contemplate quiting the 11m hobby.
It's frustrating, especially to us who aren't very patient. The spring and early summer went so well this year a now nothing at all.
I feel your frustration....
We can sure use the right conditions!
Thanks for the update @Captain Kilowatt
Gives some hope for activity
Thanks for the update @Captain Kilowatt
Gives some hope for activity
Yup. I spent me
I just spent 4k for more power, i want my skip! LolThink we’re going to have to make our own “conditions...more power!!!”
Running FT-8 for 2 days from early morning till late in the evening with the SFI at 101 i noticed some uptick in conditions, not by much though.
Signals were a bit harder, as usual China, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Africa, EU, USA, Canada, South america worked which i can do all the time in FT-8 here running 100 watts from the FT991A on my OCF or 23 meter long vertical with autotuner feeding that one.
Or 10/12/12/17 with the Imax 2 K.
6 meter was dead as a dodo here, made some 500 mile FT-8 qso's on 2/70 with the vertical Diamond X 510N at 60 feet top hight.
Benefit of living in pancake flat country that is.
SFI still 101 so after the 160 meter round i'll have a look again today what's up.
If you don't try you won't work them
For 10/11 to open SFI needs to be higher, round 140.
Won't happen for a year or so, only sporadic E is now possible, and the season for that is ending.
So, good luck, have fun on the band(s), enjoy the radio time.
Signals were a bit harder, as usual China, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Africa, EU, USA, Canada, South america worked which i can do all the time in FT-8 here running 100 watts from the FT991A on my OCF or 23 meter long vertical with autotuner feeding that one.
Or 10/12/12/17 with the Imax 2 K.
6 meter was dead as a dodo here, made some 500 mile FT-8 qso's on 2/70 with the vertical Diamond X 510N at 60 feet top hight.
Benefit of living in pancake flat country that is.
SFI still 101 so after the 160 meter round i'll have a look again today what's up.
If you don't try you won't work them
For 10/11 to open SFI needs to be higher, round 140.
Won't happen for a year or so, only sporadic E is now possible, and the season for that is ending.
So, good luck, have fun on the band(s), enjoy the radio time.
So today sfi=101 sn=124. I said ok there has gotta be some propagation. I turn on the rig and guess what? Psssssshhhhhhhhhh. Static and nothing more. Hahahaha, all i can do is laugh already. This is just all wrong
There was a guy, just one, this morning coming in from central FL to SoCal. He said he was using over 10k of power so he could have been making his own conditions.
Yeah it sucks.... but even throwing power at the situation only do so much. With conditions, it's amazing how little or big power can really go a long long ways. We need conditions!!
Some people think the sun is really going to start waking up. Maybe to much
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/gro...could-knock-out-internet-study-says-1.5579689
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/gro...could-knock-out-internet-study-says-1.5579689
Turn on the radio when I get home from work for past few weeks, Dead...no conditions at all.