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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:31:25 -0500
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From: Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: LF: What say the Propagation Gurus?
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Hi Alan,

      Thanks for the update! Sorry to hear about your PC crash!

Listening on HF this morning and it looks like very high absorption
and lots of fading/QSB.

73 Warren


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, ALAN MELIA <alan.melia@btinternet.com> wro=
te:
> Sorry for letting you all down......after all those quiet periods just as=
 things get interesting, I have had a major PC crash and have not rebuilt t=
hat machine yet(Idleness rules!). It has my html editor and images on it. I=
 am keeping tabs on things with a notebook.
>
> Unfortunately I dont have all the "research" bookmarks on this machine. T=
he SWPC warning email suggests a Kp of 6 from the first storm but I believe=
 there may be a bigger one on the way( arrive thursday nite or friday ). Th=
ere is the possibility that the effects will be additive leading to a prolo=
nged period of poor conditions.
>
> The state of the recovery is best indicated by the Dst index, and the rat=
e it is returning towards -20 nT. I would not be surprised if conditions we=
re down for around 3 weeks, with localised better days in the lst week. The=
 consolation is that daytime propagation my improve for a couple of days af=
ter the mag storms, but it will never be better than the night-time conditi=
ons.
>
> Alan
> G3NYK
>
>
> --- On Wed, 7/3/12, Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
>> Subject: LF: What say the Propagation Gurus?
>> To: "rsgb_lf_group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, 7 March, 2012, 14:29
>> Seems like an active
>> solar/geomagnetic period is upon us!
>> Any thoughts from the propagation experts (Alan this means
>> you!) as to
>> what this portends for LF/MF conditions?
>>
>>
>> --
>> 73 Warren K2ORS
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XGJ
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XSH/23
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WE2XEB/2
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WE2XGR/1
>>
>>
>



--=20
73 Warren K2ORS
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XGJ
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XSH/23
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WE2XEB/2
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WE2XGR/1