Re: LF: Re: Big CME impact!

[Scott Tilley <sthed475@telus.net>]

Thanks Alan, ever the optimist you are :-)  Lets hope good condx return 
or the bad condx are educational !
There's an interesting story on spaceweather.com about a CME impacting 
Mercury and the experiments on the Express spacecraft to observe it.  We 
have gotten to the point that we're forecasting space weather on other 
planets now and are able to observe the results!
Such a fascinating subject and LF is really a canary in the coal mine!

73 Scott


On 9/9/2011 2:54 PM, Alan Melia wrote:
> Hi Scott, probably not quite that long,  the ring current is fairly depleted
> so my guess is 7 to 10 days, but watch the Dst as it climbs back. The
> problem could be that there are more shocks to come. That certainly will
> extend the depressed period. I think -65nT is not too bad compared with what
> we have seen in the past.
>
> Alan
> G3NYK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Tilley"<sthed475@telus.net>
> To:<rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 10:46 PM
> Subject: LF: Big CME impact!
>
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > A Kp=7 geomagnetic storm is raging now and the Dst has dropped like a
> > rock for the first time in months.
> >
> > I won't expect good DX condx for awhile on LF.
> >
> > Too bad as the EU and Asia signals on 153 where building up very nicely
> > with record early appearances from EU !  Back to square one for a couple
> > of weeks I guess.
> >
> > 73 Scott
> > VE7TIL CN89dk
> > http://www3.telus.net/sthed/argo/