Excessive Static

[jkp1]

I was driving through central Indiana this morning. I had an s6 level of static. I turned the ref gain all the way down and it did change the noises level at all. I thought something was wrong with my radio or antenna. Coming home in the evening things were back to normal. I have never experience that much background static. Any ideals what was going on?

 

[midnight special]

driving to close to a 50 to 80 model year ford,,,

 

[AudioShockwav]

Am mode?
There was a lot of dx activity today out here into the Midwest and then up north to BC.
Strong propagation with s9+ signals at times during the day.

73
Jeff

 

[M0GVZ]

Spaceweather.com

"Earth-directed solar flare and halo cme (coronal mass ejection)
This morning, an explosion on the sun hurled a CME almost directly toward Earth. It's called a 'halo CME' because the storm cloud appears to make a halo around the solar disk as it moves in our direction.
Minor to moderately-strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives during the late hours of Oct. 11th or Oct 12th."

I'd expect the effects of that to already be starting to affect us before the CME arrives.

 

[Handy Andy]

I'd expect the effects of that to already be starting to affect us before the CME arrives.

 

[Eldorado828]

Spaceweather.com

"Earth-directed solar flare and halo cme (coronal mass ejection)
This morning, an explosion on the sun hurled a CME almost directly toward Earth. It's called a 'halo CME' because the storm cloud appears to make a halo around the solar disk as it moves in our direction.
Minor to moderately-strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives during the late hours of Oct. 11th or Oct 12th."

I'd expect the effects of that to already be starting to affect us before the CME arrives.

I can confirm that it has definitely opened up in this part of the world, it's been dead for weeks here.

 

[secret squirrel]

A spacecraft carrying the last son of the planet Krypton reportedly crash landed in a cornfield in the middle of Kansas this AM. He is now a US citizen, granted amnesty for being an illegal alien. Perhaps that was the cause for the AM noise this morning.

 

[jkp1]

Thanks for the answers. I had wondered about skip, but I didn’t hear anyone talking, only static.

 

[Tokin]

I had jolly roger in the uk callkng cq on ch19 this morning...

 

[r carl]

Witch doctor was rambling today...

 

[jkp1]

In Indiana today, i heard guys from Hawaii, California, Oregon, and MMM.

 

[Eldorado828]

In Indiana today, i heard guys from Hawaii, California, Oregon, and MMM.

That MMM was all over the texas air waves later on in the day.