Brazil was all I heard, did talk to 4 stations with good signal reports both ways.
San Paulo area.
Time here was 12:00am to 1:00pm - W. coast.
San Paulo area.
Time here was 12:00am to 1:00pm - W. coast.
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S. America yesterday...
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Worked a few in Brazil yesterday afternoon on 10. Saturday evening worked south cook islands... so conditions are hopefully coming back on 10/11 meters..
Looks like another breeze of solar wind will affect us tomorrow and more to come.
MINOR GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: NOAA forecasters say that a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is likely on Oct. 26th. That's when Earth will pass through a new stream of solar wind flowing from a northern hole in the sun's atmosphere. Bright auroras may be seen in Alaska, Canada, and the countries of Scandinavia. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.
BIG NEW SUNSPOT FACES EARTH: A sunspot has just materialized in the sun's southern hemisphere--and it's a big one. Newly-named AR2778 is inset in this magnetic map of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
The +/- polarity of the spot marks it as a member of new Solar Cycle 25. This continues a trend of intensifying new-cycle sunspot activity in 2020.
The primary dark core of AR2778 is about the size of Earth. Altogether, the sunspot group sprawls 90,000 km across the face of the sun, dimensions which make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Amateur astronomers with safely-filtered optics are encouraged to monitor developments.
MINOR GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: NOAA forecasters say that a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is likely on Oct. 26th. That's when Earth will pass through a new stream of solar wind flowing from a northern hole in the sun's atmosphere. Bright auroras may be seen in Alaska, Canada, and the countries of Scandinavia. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.
BIG NEW SUNSPOT FACES EARTH: A sunspot has just materialized in the sun's southern hemisphere--and it's a big one. Newly-named AR2778 is inset in this magnetic map of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
The +/- polarity of the spot marks it as a member of new Solar Cycle 25. This continues a trend of intensifying new-cycle sunspot activity in 2020.
The primary dark core of AR2778 is about the size of Earth. Altogether, the sunspot group sprawls 90,000 km across the face of the sun, dimensions which make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Amateur astronomers with safely-filtered optics are encouraged to monitor developments.
This is really great news for us all : ) One just turned the right lower side of the sun the other day and now there is another one. We need something to cheer us up.
Plenty of Sporadic E still in Europe if you are lucky on the right day and previously good openings to S. America. Just watch the spots, that's the rule of thumb, it is not particularly strong but can be worked if your station performance is up to snuff.
Already a new spot coming around, only 1, but 1 is better than none, watch how it develops.
https://spaceweather.com/
Already a new spot coming around, only 1, but 1 is better than none, watch how it develops.
https://spaceweather.com/
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I talked to 3SF044 yesterday from San Paulo. My farthest contact so far.
Nice new spot coming round looking good ! The long hauls might pick up a bit as that gets centre screen. Certainly seems to have turned the corner on the minima.
https://spaceweather.com/images2020/03nov20/hmi1898.gif
https://spaceweather.com/images2020/03nov20/hmi1898.gif
Long time no CB, 178! Early last week S. Africa was coming in early AM for about 2 hrs. The propagation shifted into UK, GER, DEN. All on 27.3750. With the noise floor nulled out the signals averaged S7 with a length of electric fence wire stuck in the back of a stock 955HP while checking out the receive. Little Quad-V beam will be hung up in shipping a few more weeks. Starting over from scratch, nothing elaborate this go around.
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