RE: [amsat-bb] any solar storm updates

[Tony Langdon <tlangdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Tony,
>    Be careful how you interpret ACE data on spaceweather.com 
> because ACE is
> currently unreliable with it's readings. I hadn't seen any 
> visible aurora
> last night but that may have been simply because I was in the 
> shack pounding
> out new contacts on 2m, averaging one every 6 minutes for 4 
> hours. It was
> nuts. At it's peak, my beam was pointed almost due west and I'm at 40
> degrees latitude. About the time the aurora died down, our 
> friend N1JEZ
> showed up on 6m SSB literally pegging the meter...what a treat!
> 
> Us VHFers suffer 360 days out of the year, I feel little pity for HF
> operators right now.  ;-)

Well, things had subsided by the time our evening came along.  No visible
auroras or signs of auroral propagation were heard. :-(  


And reports coming in suggested the storm was abating by then.  We rode out
the peak of during our daylight hours. :-(
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