Sun Becoming Active?

[N2NH]

SpaceWeather.com is reporting a "Geomagnetic Storm in Progress."


A major geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a CME on August 5th around 1800 UT. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras after nightfall. Tip: the best hours for aurora sightings are usually around local midnight...

Also:


The M9-class solar flare of August 4th produced a burst of shortwave static so powerful that receivers on Earth picked it up after sunset. "A RadioJove (http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/) observer in Florida recorded the burst when the sun was 38 degrees below the horizon," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft. Ashcraft's own radio telescope in New Mexico recorded the event 1 hour and 54 minutes after sunset...

Links here. (http://spaceweather.com/)

[N2NH]

Reuters:


"The magnetic storm that is soon to develop probably will be in the moderate to strong level," said Joseph Kunches, a space weather scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center, a division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).He said solar storms this week could affect communications and global positioning system (GPS) satellites and might even produce an aurora visible as far south as Minnesota and Wisconsin.
An aurora, called aurora borealis or the northern lights in northern latitudes, is a natural light display in the sky in the Arctic and Antarctic regions caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere.
Major disruptions from solar activity are rare but have had serious impacts in the past.

LINK (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-utilities-noaa-solarstorms-idUSTRE7746UA20110805)

[KG4CGC]

I also like to supplement my info with this site.

http://www.dxfm.com/

[NQ6U]

Here's hoping old Sol is finally waking from it's long slumber. I got my first taste of good DX conditions back in January and I'd really like them to come back once again.

[KG4CGC]

Here's hoping old Sol is finally waking from it's long slumber. I got my first taste of good DX conditions back in January and I'd really like them to come back once again.
Yeah well, let's hope he doesn't go over active to compensate. A total meltdown of our atmosphere would not be good.

[PA5COR]

Some strange audio on 80/160 F2 layer at 300 miles up ;o
good signals on 160, 80 went dead just an hour ago, MUF dropped like a stone....
Aurora reported in Schotland, looking at the map in the USA northern states should get some too.

[NQ6U]

Yeah well, let's hope he doesn't go over active to compensate. A total meltdown of our atmosphere would not be good.

Not for us humans, perhaps. The rats and the cockroaches would probably be okay with it.

[Jerry]

10 meters tonight was booming out of Texas and California and Alabama and Georgia tonight into Western Pennsylvania.

Around about 9:30 PM - it went from nothing to being able to hear 3 people on every frequency.

11 PM - like someone hit the light switch - it all went dark.

I guess that is what they would call chasing the GRAY LINE Propogation.

[KG4CGC]

It's sparking up again out of Australia and New Zealand. Heard a few JA's in there too.

[NQ6U]

I worked New Zealand last night on 20m PSK 31.