[SixClub] Re: [BVARC] Hip Hip Hooray!!!! ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA (abridged)

[Howard Bingham]

6 meters broke squelch this afternoon (Friday), maybe 6 M may be 
active Saturday during Boy & Girl Scouting "Jamboree On The Air" 
which runs all day Saturday through Sunday this weekend..  Listen 
either side of 50.160 (The frequency listed in BSA literature) for 6 
meter JOTA activity.

JOTA is an exercise be both Boy & Girl Scouts to talk to one another 
world wide by ham radio..

Check  www.ARRL.org  web page for details..

One organized effort will be from the Presbyterian Church on West 
Bellfort (Several blocks west of Post Oak Rd. on West Bellfort) in SW Houston.

Engage and encourage the scouts as we need new blood in our hobby 
which serves the USA in emergency communications..

Most of the activity will be on HF bands, but some local traffic may 
spill out onto local VHF repeaters ( 147.000  for example, in Houston.)

73,

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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At 11:11 AM 10/17/2008, Rick Hiller wrote:
>Subject: ARLP043 Propagation de K7RA
>
>Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43  ARLP043
> >From Tad Cook, K7RA
>Seattle, WA  October 17, 2008
>To all radio amateurs
>
>Finally, we are seeing Cycle 24 sunspots that don't emerge one day,
>and evaporate the next.  That's right -- sunspots, as in two or
>more.  On Friday, October 10 sunspot 1005 emerged at high latitude
>over our Sun's eastern limb, and that day's sunspot number was 12.
>On the following day the sunspot number rose to 16, and a solar wind
>emerging from a coronal hole caused a geomagnetic storm.  Planetary
>A index rose from a quiet 3 on Friday to 37, and the mid-latitude A
>index was 20.  The 3-hour planetary K index reached a maximum of 7
>that day, a high value for that scale.  Since then conditions have
>quieted again.
>
>On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday -- as the spot progressed toward the
>center-north of the solar disk -- sunspot numbers were 16, 15 and 14
>as the dark spot began to fade.  On Wednesday the sunspot number
>faded another point to 13, but on Thursday, October 16, sunspot 1006
>emerged, but this time in the southwest corner, about to rotate out
>of view.  The sunspot number for Thursday jumped to 24.
>
>On Wednesday of this week a reading of activity on the side of the
>Sun facing away from Earth found another possible sunspot.  This was
>detected using a method called helioseismic holography, which
>depends on pressure waves bouncing around our Sun's interior.  For
>more detail, take a look at,
>http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/Helioseismology.shtml. Also the
>site,
>http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/open?pubNo=lrsp-2005-6&key=Hagedoorn19
>54.
>
>Sunspot numbers for October 9 through 15 were 0, 12, 16, 16, 15, 14,
>and 13 with a mean of 12.3.  10.7 cm flux was 68.7, 68.9, 70.8,
>70.1, 70.9, 70.4, and 70.9 with a mean of 70.1.  Estimated planetary
>A indices were 2, 3, 37, 13, 9, 4 and 8 with a mean of 10.9.
>Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 1, 2, 20, 10, 7, 3 and 7 with
>a mean of 7.1.
>NNNN
>/EX
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