Cycle 24 ALIVE & KICKING !!

10 Meters 
is 
"RADIO-ACTIVE"

With the solar flux at 190 right now...

The bands have exploded this weekend !!

Last night 15 meters was open to Asia and the South Pacific

until well after 9pm local time.

I ran a pile-up of Europeans on 10 meter SSB yesterday... 

and did it again this morning ... 

with signals coming in at S9 plus at times !!

I had a 30 min chat with Bob /M3DPQ on 10 meters ... 

He was running a little Icom 703 at 10 watts !!

I haven't seen conditions like this in years !!

The "Magic" has returned ...

at least for this weekend.

M3DPQ / Bob

from his 10 watt qrp station

M7.4 Solar Flare: The Solar Flares just keep on coming. This time Sunspot 1302 churned out an M7.4 Solar Flare at 04:50 UTC Sunday morning (Sept 25,2011).

Solar Update: ( Via ... Solarham.com) Solar activity has been strong over the past 48 hours with numerous M-Class flares as well as now two X-Class flares around Sunspot 1302. The chances for an Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejection are increasing.
New Sunspot 1303 located in the southern hemisphere is also capable of producing M-Class flares.
More Flare activity will be possible within the next 24 hours.
Top 10 Solar Flares of Cycle 24: (Sunspot number in brackets)
X6.9 - Aug 9, 2011 (1263)
X2.2 - Feb 15, 2011 (1158)
X2.1 - Sept 6, 2011 (1283)
X1.9 - Sept 24, 2011 (1302)
X1.8 - Sept 7, 2011 (1283)
X1.5 - March 9 , 2011 (1166)
X1.4 - Sept 22, 2011 (1302)
M9.3 - Aug 4, 2011 (1261)
M9.3 - July 30, 2011 (1260)
M8.3 - Feb 6, 2010 (1045)
7 of these 10 flares in the past 2 months.