[HCARC] Solar Activity

[Kerry Sandstrom]

Gang,

The Sun is quite interesting looking this morning.  There are 7 sunspot 
groups clustered around the center of the Sun .  Four or five of them 
are pretty impressive.  There was an M9/2b flare about 0500 UT this 
morning.  It wouldn't surprise me if the 10.7 cm solar flux is near 200 
today.   Conditions were good on all bands I checked this morning, 40, 
30 and 17 m.  30 meters was open well before sunrise this morning with 
good signals from W1AW/3 in MD and W1AW/4 in GA.  Several other signals 
were also on the band.  40 was also good with W1AW/KH6 on.  17 was open 
to the east coast and Europe before 1500 UT (0900 Local).  If you are 
interested in the higher bands, be sure to check them out the rest of 
this week.

Kerry