ai6yr, 1 month ago

@KC8JC The other rule is: FABULOUS RADIO CONDITIONS M-F, then SOLAR FLARE AND NO RADIO ON SAT-SUN! 😂

tsherrygeo, 1 month ago

@ai6yr @KC8JC luckily it's still winter here ⛷️

kelvin0mql, 1 month ago

@tsherrygeo @ai6yr @KC8JC

Am I late for the Ham Radio Optimists Club meeting?

What'd I miss?

ai6yr, 1 month ago

@kelvin0mql @tsherrygeo @KC8JC Ah, just the usual commentary on operating weather and band conditions 😂 (did just spin through HF, and either my radio isn't working or only 40m is open, with shortwave from Asia coming in for me)

quantensalat, 1 month ago

@ai6yr @kelvin0mql @tsherrygeo @KC8JC If 40 is open, we can be sure that you plugged in your antenna. Or did you forget a low pass filter in the chain ;)

kelvin0mql, 1 month ago

@quantensalat @ai6yr @tsherrygeo @KC8JC
Doing a band-check here. Started on 10m FT8. Nothing.
Nothing on 12m.
A tiny bit (like, 3 stns) on 15m, one is Brazil.
A bit on 17m - ZF2, IV3, VA2.
20m is wall-to-wall as usual, but not super densely. But about 2 doz. decodes per cycle.
A few on 30m.
A few on 40m.
No resonant element on 60m.
Nothing on 80m.

Yeah, it's a little weird. It feels a lot like solar minimum today.

tsherrygeo, 1 month ago

@kelvin0mql @quantensalat @ai6yr @KC8JC a couple days ago there was a solar CME event...

Copying from N7UN's post in NA-SOTA Slack:

ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5
Threshold Reached: 2024 Apr 30 2343 UTC
NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate
Expect solar space junk about 72 hrs later, meaning this weekend could be a geomagnetic mess.