Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2751 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 09:40:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO netmail01.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.219) by mailstore with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 09:40:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 25349 invoked by uid 10001); 30 Oct 2003 09:40:17 -0000 X-Filtered-by: Plusnet (hmail v1.01) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Spam-detection-level: 11 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.20) by netmail01.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 09:40:09 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Fake-Domain: majordom Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1AF9FG-0001cD-AG for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:37:34 +0000 Received: from [213.218.75.230] (helo=smtp01.freeler.nl) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AF9FF-0001c4-Dz for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:37:33 +0000 Received: (qmail 20107 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 09:37:33 -0000 X-Fake-Domain: unknown Received: from unknown (HELO w8k3f0.freeler.nl) ([62.21.129.211]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp01.freeler.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Oct 2003 09:37:32 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20031030093018.029f4b20@POP3.freeler.nl> X-Sender: FRE0000086604@POP3.freeler.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:45:22 +0100 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "Dick Rollema" In-reply-to: <000401c39e1c$21c13950$fce8c593@rsch15> References: <000701c39bc9$0d610620$6507a8c0@Main> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: LF: Solar Activity Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Rating: 1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit To All from PA0SE:

Jim M0BMU wrote:

I see there was an X17 solar flare yesterday, with accompanying
earthwards CME - no wonder I couldn't see VO1NA last night! I thought we
were getting into the quiet part of the sunspot cycle!

Yesterday at 2030 UTC I had a QSO on 80 metres with PA0HRT (over 190km) and PA0HRP (over 54km), the latter on his motorboat.
After some 15 minutes the signals suddenly almost disappeared; we had just time to agree to QSY to 160 m.
There I could continue the QSO with PA0HRP via groundwave. PA0HRT was to far away to hear us.
Our morning paper has a beautiful picture of the sun eruption and it says that satellite communications and high voltage lines are in danger of interruptions.

73, Dick, PA0SE