[Boatanchors] Radio Blackout Going On?

[Mark K3MSB]

20M pretty dead here at 2100Z.

Managed to make enough QSOs to qualify two sets of gear on 20 and 40
earlier but it was rough going.   We'll see about 80 tonight.

73 Mark K3MSB

On Sep 10, 2017 4:24 PM, "Bill Stewart" <cwopr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Forty is back...been making some CX contacts for over an hour.
> Bill K4JYS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K5MYJ" <macklinbob at gmail.com>
> To: anchor at ec.rr.com, W9RAN at oneradio.net, "Bill Stewart" <
> cwopr at embarqmail.com>, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:20:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Radio Blackout Going On?
>
> At the start of the contest this morning I started DX Lab to look at the
> RBN
> info. NOTHING THERE! I thought DX Lab may be screwed up again. So I started
> it on the second computer. SAME RESULT.
>
> The I saw these messages.
>
> Then I looked at IonoProbe. It told me about the solar flare!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Parker" <anchor at ec.rr.com>
> To: <W9RAN at oneradio.net>; "Bill Stewart" <cwopr at embarqmail.com>;
> <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Radio Blackout Going On?
>
>
> > yup, I ckd the solar info a bit ago, found that out.  20m dead.  But just
> > tried the Vintage Sideband Net, heard Andy, WB0SNF, in Nebraska for cupla
> > minutes with QSB, then gone.  Did chat with a local for 15 min. there,
> > 14.292,5
> > Seemed like 40m was going down in strengths about 10-11 AM today,was on
> > the Classic Exchange QSO party, CW, for a bit.
> > 73,
> > Al, W8UT
> > www.boatanchors.org
> > www.hammarlund.info
> >
> > "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much
> > worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
> > Ratty, to Mole
> >
> > On 9/10/2017 2:07 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> >> There is an X-8 solar flare in progress right now - complete HF
> blackout.
> >>
> >> See www.solarham.com and www.spaceweather.com for details.
> >>
> >> 73, Bob W9RAN
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