[SADXA] big x-ray flare

[Desert Woodworker]

DX-ers, et al., 


Heard a sudden enhancement in white noise on 50.125 this morning
while working a nice 6-m opening.  It had to be the Sun.  Sure enough,
the GOES X-Ray graph showed a rising flare in the M-Class range, while
the noise was raging on 6-m.

Flare got up to about the M-8 Class range, falling short of X-Class on the
logarithmic scale.

Propagation was "sterilized" on 6-m and 10-m for a few minutes, but, as the
flare ceased, stations came back on 6-m and heard many beacons on 10m

Time of flare-noise noted here on the atomic desk-clock, 09:31:30 MST,
or 16:31:30 Zulu, Sunday, July 8 2012..

It's always a privilege to be on the air and to hear these things in real-time
from the sun.  For some of us, it's the only Radio-Astronomy we get to do.  ;-)

Here's the URL for the 1-minute resolution X-Ray graph from the satellite:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_1m.html

and the five-minute time-hack graph:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5m.html


73,

--Joe / W7DXW



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