A solar flare will disrupt all HF and some satellites,While the flare is hitting the earth ,it can cause the VHF bands to open up .After the flare passes then the HF bands will be very active for F2 and maybe even some on 6 meters too
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net To: wa4hfn@comcast.net Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:00:58 PM Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ALERT
Does that help HF?
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of wa4hfn@comcast.net Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:23 AM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] ALERT
INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth: SEE spaceweather.com WA4HFN Damon
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