80M FT held up remarkably well through the storm as far as I could tell. Seemed to be open all night.
I managed to see my first aurora from Deepwater. I'm about 29 degrees south latitude. The sky mostly looked white and I could see some red shimmering colours too. The date was May 11, 2024. Time about 9:30pm
Aurora is there more often than many think. And to that its often just laborious to catch a photo in cause of different reasons. Forecast of NOAA https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/3-day-forecast NOAA Scale explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
At 2015 UTC or so, later afternoon Tuesday in CT, I actually did make a routine contact on 20m CW with Florida. There was no "warbling", though my signal was pitifully bad (229!) even though I was running 50 W. 50 W should always be enough power for the East Coast. The members of my club with 6m were having a lot of fun on FT8. Perhaps I should investigate making a portable tape-measure Yagi for 6m should these conditions hold up? 73, Jordan AB2T
10 m appears dead today. I'm a dinosaur and stick to SSB... I'm in Muskegon, Michigan. Anyone else experiencing this?
https://www.hamqsl.com/solar3.html#conditions Near the bottom of the page where you see the sun image. The left side drop down, select D-Region Abs
The World's largest Solar Telescope atop Haleakala on Maui has been on overtime Aurora was seen from Hawaii for he first time in 100 years. KH6/G3SEA.
Some good stuff here from physicist Anton Petrov. We might have dodged a bullet last week, but we are not out of the woods yet.
Be careful what you wish for! The recent May 10th Great Storm was a bunch of X1-X5 solar flares hitting earth. The Carrington Event is estimated to have been between X30 and X45. The energy of our recent flares is pretty low compared to Carrington, and we still have at least a year to go! Stay safe (and cool!) in Texas.
