Caved and set up the Buddipole. Will see if I can catch any solar bursts on 40m and 20m in radio land. Upconverter on battery to RTLSDR. Living dangerously, straight into lappie, gulp.
Excellent descrip of what I saw last night & into this morning, even during the entry R1 Blackout level. I was surfing the 40/30/20m bands & found an eerie & persistent 'quiet earth' that I had never before seen.
Why? During intense solar storms the lower ionosphere becomes extremely electron-dense, and so radio reliant on ionospheric bounce loses energy - becoming degraded or lost altogether - due to increased collisions in this new high-density environment:
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