Incoming CME, Released December 20, 2014

[RadioRay]

Ho ! Well, you'd be in a good position to see them, as far as latitude is concerned.

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I had a sked on 20m not long ago and his signal began at a good S9+10 and no fading.  After ten minutes, we had DEEP FADES and the signal settled with peaks at S1 in just under TWO MINUTES!  Fortunately, we both have a very low local noise level, so we were able to coordinate a sign-off.  SOoooo - I'd say that it has arrived.  OTOH -40m is just fine so far, with stations from Brazil to Massachusetts coming in well.


>RadioRay ..._  ._

Ps. I just noticed that my satellite internet signal is fading away too.  It's dropping fast.

[Joe]

X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR2242 erupted on Saturday, Dec. 20th @ 00:27 UT, producing an intense X1.8-class solar flare.

There has already been one Earth-effect: Extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized our planet's upper atmosphere and blacked out HF radio communications over Australia and the South Pacific. Below 10 MHz, transmissions were strongly attenuated for more than two hours.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

73
Joe

[gil]

I think it was on Thursday maybe, Ray and I could not hear each other, which is very rare on 20m. Today was fine, even with just 4W. i have not tried 40m though...

Gil.

[sdr]

Hi folks. New to the site. So a metal cabinet with aluminum foil tape for the gaps? Any ideas?

[Joe]

Hi folks. New to the site. So a metal cabinet with aluminum foil tape for the gaps? Any ideas?

Hello sdr and welcome to the forum, check out the link below for information that was put together here on Building Your Own EMP Faraday Cage .

http://radiopreppers.com/index.php/topic,330.0.html

73
Joe