Solar Flare! Geomagnetic Field is Active

[qrprat77]

Poor propagation on normal HF, maybe get some E-skip on 10m or 6m. A index of 35, K of 4.Nasty!Any you smart fone app usin' fellers get an alert about the event?

[WiseOwl]

I got the alert about 3 today.
IPhone users the app is called 3D Sun.

[qrprat77]

Did you get any news a couple days ago?

[qrprat77]

Space WX alert.

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK06Serial Number: 297Issue Time: 2012 Oct 09 0111 UTCALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6Threshold Reached: 2012 Oct 09 0111 UTCSynoptic Period: 0000-0300 UTCActive Warning: YesNOAA Scale: G2 - ModeratePotential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 55 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.Induced Currents - Power grid fluctuations can occur. High-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms.Spacecraft - Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes.Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state.

[WiseOwl]

Yeah. Had another update this morning. Looks like its pretty busy up there. Saw that there were some auroras even in Utah

[qrprat77]

There's a coronal hole rotating into view on the disk. sigh.
Here's an anecdote for you from last night: When I got home, the bars in this picture: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html had just made the first red bar of the second set of red bars. I tuned around some, heard signals, tried to contact people with me using 100 watts, tried to contact people with me using 1 watt. After about an hour of this, I was doing some experiments and measurements, and tried tuning around again. There was very little activity, and what was there sounded weak and like whoever was sending the signal was being bounced around inside a garbage can.
i did hear some low speed digital stuff going on in the digi freqs on 80m (round about 3.580 MHz) that I wish I could have decoded. I need to get an AFSK interface built for my fone, they have apps that will let you decode signals from your radio.

[1Admin]

So your saying my ammo is about to blow up? Oh crap.... I gotta leave the damn county!!!

Just kidding, I know I shouldn't have :)