Day: 15 August 2022

INTENSIFYING SOLAR ACTIVITY: Another CME might be heading for Earth following an M1-class solar flare on Aug. 15th (1436 UT). NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the explosion from southern sunspot AR3078: A pulse of X-rays from the flare caused a minor radio blackout over Read more…

Aug 15, 2022 Another shoebox find courtesy Jose, EA5BCQ. The operator in the picture lived to 92 years of age. In actual fact he was more famous than he realised – for many years he was the only active radio Read more…

Aug 15, 2022  Since June 2022, Didier F5NPV has been living in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei and active on HF bands (CW, SSB & FT8) as V85/F5NPV. After September he will apply for a local callsign. Keep an eye on his blog for Read more…

SFI = 126 A index = 7 K index = 2 SSN = 97 GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (UPDATED): Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible on Aug. 17th when a CME is expected to sideswipe Earth’s magnetic field. The CME was hurled in our direction yesterday by a Read more…