[amsat-bb] Re: ALERT

[wa4hfn at comcast.net]

A solar flare will disrupt all HF and some satellites,While the flare is hitting the earth ,it can cause the VHF bands to open up .After the flare passes then the HF bands will be very active for F2 and maybe even some on 6 meters too

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted" <k7trkradio at charter.net>
To: wa4hfn at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:00:58 PM
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] ALERT

Does that help HF?

-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
Behalf Of wa4hfn at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:23 AM
To: AMSAT
Subject: [amsat-bb] ALERT

INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30
UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection
(CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding
almost directly toward Earth:
SEE  spaceweather.com
WA4HFN Damon

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