[Elecraft] Bands In Sad Shape

[G. Beat]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Saunders, kJ7BS" <kj7bs at cox.net>
To: <skcc at yahoogroups.com>; <fists at mailman.qth.net>; "Elecraft Reflector" 
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:36 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Bands In Sad Shape


> What happened to the bands today?  I hear almost nothing.  I did hear, and
> work, ZF2AH this morning on 17m, but nothing else until this evening when 
> I
> called CQ on 7.055 and I got TI2RDP responding to my call.
>
> I did notice the A index was at 70 this morning and has fallen to 10 at 
> 0636
> UTC.
>
> Mark, KJ7BS
> Glendale, AZ
>

I noticed the same thing on 40 and 80 meters past 2 nights (higher noise 
than usual and odd propagations).  On 40 meters, I was hearing Eastern Asia 
stations (one appeared to be Chinese) from about 7.220 down to around 7.140 
MHz.

Traditional regional stations were barely detectible --- almost 
non-existent.

I attribute this to the 0930 region events on Sun
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events_archive.html

We have had at least one "X" event every day since December 13
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events_20061213_1008/index.html

December 17 --- region 0930 is "setting to right" from Earth's vantage point
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events_20061217_0847/index.html