[HCARC] Solar Activity

[Gary J - N5BAA]

Thank you Kerry - a more active sun just as we are going into the weekend 
with the ARRL International DX Contest.  It's good to hear more about the 
sun and glad to see it more active than not, which is I fear what is coming 
in the long term.  I might have to go in search of enough of the really 
large 60-70 foot telephone poles to set up a 40-160 horizontal loop Skywire. 
Those plus another 10-15 feet of mast might make an antenna that does OK. 
Anyone know how to glue/splice two regular poles together end to end - 
HMMMMM??  Probably cheaper to buy Rohn 25 though.  OH to have the 100 plus 
foot cedar and Douglas Fir trees from my property in Edmonds WA.

Gary J
N5BAA

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kerry Sandstrom
Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 4:13 PM
To: HCARC Reflector
Subject: [HCARC] Solar Activity

There have been 5 M-class flares on the sun today.  They are all from
the same group which is about to rotate behind the visible hemisphere.
The 10.7 cm solar flux is up to 130 and climbing.  It looks like there
is an active sunspot group just rotating onto the visible hemisphere.
This is a good week to keep track of the higher HF bands, I think, with
increased solar activity and a good time of the year, spring.

Have fun,

Kerry
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