[HCARC] FW: X-ray Flare

[Lew King]

Gary,

Gale has a good suggestion.  Alonge with Gale, I suggest we go ahead with our antenna plans, regardless of the current solar activity.  That way, we'll be ready to deal with whatever band condx exist during the FD.  That is part of the FD experience - to make communications regardless of our condx, weather - solar, etc.  We'll do our best regardless.

73

Lew W5LEW

From: galeheise at windstream.net [mailto:galeheise at windstream.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 11:03 AM
To: Gary J - N5BAA; tower2 at stx.rr.com; Bob Richie; thipskind at suddenlink.net; Lew King; larryaltman at hctc.net; kerryk5ks at hughes.net; billandmattie at windstream.net; dale.gaudier at windstream.net
Subject: Re: [HCARC] X-ray Flare

 

Gary-

 

  In the past, with one beam, we noticed a difference between operating the beam (much better) and the wire antennas.

 

  My suggestion would be to start by putting up the antennas with the most gain i.e. A4S Beam and HexBeam regardless of propagation predictions.  Next priority recommended would be an antenna that covers 40 and one for 80.  Don’t recall having a huge amount of activity on 160.

 

  Just my thoughts but I’m sure you will get others as well.

 

Gale

KM4DR

 

From: Gary J - N5BAA <mailto:qltfnish at omniglobal.net>  

Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 10:54 AM

To: tower2 at stx.rr.com ; Bob Richie <mailto:K5YB at mail.com>  ; thipskind at suddenlink.net ; Lew King <mailto:w5lew at reagan.com>  ; larryaltman at hctc.net ; kerryk5ks at hughes.net ; billandmattie at windstream.net ; dale.gaudier at windstream.net ; galeheise at windstream.net 

Subject: Fw: [HCARC] X-ray Flare

 

At what point do we decide antenna wise to cut back on our rather ambitious 
plans for building antennas??  I currently have all of my antennas down 
packed to bring to Field Day so I can't judge nor am I really qualified to 
judge what conditions will be on the bands several days in advance.  We were 
putting up an A4S Beam (20-15-10), HexBeam (20-15-10-6), 574' (160-10) Loop, 
several OCF dipoles.  If we went with a decreased number of antennas I would 
suggest the Hexbeam (it's easy to build and is educational for all), maybe a 
smaller loop say for 40 or 80 meters, and the OCF Dipoles which go up 
easily.  I also have a ALPHA DELTA DX-A 160-80-40 METER TWIN SLOPER that 
could supplement 160-40 that would use the metal tower trailer as it's 
needed path to ground (see http://www.alphadeltacom.com/dxa_ii.htm).

At any rate, it's easy to bring the antennas as they are already packed. 
It's good to be able to pick and choose.

Do we want to reduce the number of transmitters operating to 2 plus GOTA and 
VHF/UHF??

Gary J
N5BAA

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kerry Sandstrom
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 6:47 AM
To: HCARC Reflector
Subject: [HCARC] X-ray Flare

There was an M 7.9 class X-ray flare about 0900 UT this morning.  It had
a CME also expected to reach the earth.  A geomagnetic storm is expected
about 1600 UT on 26 Jun, just in time for Field Day.

Kerry
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