[DX] Solar Activity

[J Dyer]

That reminds me of a conversation I had with a former classmate soon after we
finished high school. I met up with him on "the" street of our little hometown
one Saturday evening. He was all dressed out in his Navy uniform and we spent
some time catching up on the last year's events. The military had just received
a much publicized pay increase and I mentioned his new pay raise.  He replied,
"Five  percent of nothing ain't very  *&@%^& much." Same for the sunspots....but
for those of us who have spent too much time in the sun and are permanently
addicted to listening to 50 mhz white noise for days on end, there is hope. New
England is beginning to hear European 40-50 Mhz video. This is 2-4 weeks earlier
then normal. We are hoping this is an indicator of another record E-skip season
to Europe. It didn't get to Texas until the first week of week of June in 2006.

Locked and Loaded to the northeast.

John
AE5B




On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:04:58 -0500, you wrote:

>John mentioned at lunch that DX conditions seemed "better."  
>
>Well they are...just not much :-)
>
>
>At least this time, there ARE some Sunspots.  THAT is good.  
>
> 
>Current Solar Image 
>from SOHO Current Solar Flux report:
>SFI: 71 A-index: 3 K-Index: 1 
>Report last updated: 12:06utc 11 May 07 Highs for Cycle 23 
>Flux: 298 - 26 Oct 2003 
>Sunspots: 401 - 20 Jul 2000 
>Current Sunspot Count: 20
>
>Summary for the past 24 hours:
>No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
>
>Forecast for the next 24 hours:
>No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.