[Hallicrafters] HHI Nets And CME

[manualman at juno.com]

I would suggest people using the real-time prop maps (earlier post) as an
indication for propagation at any particular time on any particular band.
As for 40 meters, propagation in the early afternoons will only continue
to deteriorate as we move through March and then into spring/summer
months. There will be some good days but probably not as many as through
the fall and winter months.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:40:26 -0500 "Duane Fischer, W8DBF"
<dfischer at usol.com> writes:
> Hi Roy,
> 
> I just shutdown the Saturday HHI 40M Net due to lack of useable 
> propagation.
> 
> In my opinion: The forecast is not correct. Big surprise, heh? As of 
> 1720 
> UTC I could not hear a single station on the forty meter band from 
> 7.225 - 
> 7.285 MHZ LSB. I did hear five atmosphere related "noises" that were 
> from 
> +/-2 KHZ to 10 KHZ wide. One reminded me of the RF audio emitted by 
> the 
> planet Jupiter! But this was NOT Jupiter!
> 
> IF, and I mean "IF", the forecast is close - the bands may not be 
> useable 
> until about twenty-six hours from now, or about 1830 UTC March 
> 11th.
> 
> There is way too much involved to get into any kind of even 
> reasonably 
> accurate projections Roy, in my mind anyhow. If the velocity of the 
> CME 
> (Coronal Mass Ejection) remains at its originally stated speed, the 
> main 
> part of the atmospheric disruption will get here about2200 UTC 
> today. Slower 
> and it will arrive from 0001 - 0500 UTC or later.
> 
> It is likely that decent propagation will not be present until late 
> March 
> 11th. or possibly March 12th.
> 
> Roy, it would be most interesting, and helpful, if you, and others, 
> would 
> spot different bands and report what you hear. Some of can monitor 
> low 
> bands, others the high bands, some various beacons etc. Some can 
> listen for 
> Voice COMS and others for CW or RTTY COMS.
> 
> Since this CME is supposed to be mighty close to a direct hit on the 
> Earth's 
> electromagnetic fields, putting all of the reported data together 
> just 
> "might" yield some useful future information! So those of you who do 
> listen 
> over the next twenty-four to thirty hours, on and off - of course!, 
> please 
> report what you here to the list. Then some of us can collect it and 
> put it 
> into a report format. The final results to be posted here for all to 
> share 
> and contemplate.