----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Moseson" w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com To: cq-l@cq-amateur-radio.com Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: [cq-l] Keep tuned to 6 meters tomorrow (Friday)
Look for Great DX on 6 Meters Friday
CQ Propagation Editor Tomas Hood, NW7US, suggests keeping a radio tuned to 6 meters tomorrow, November 30. Hood reports that the solar flux rose
above
200 today -- it's at 216 as this is written -- with and very low Ap and Kp readings indicating that we have very low Geomagnetic activity. This, Hood says, makes for clean F-layer openings.
A partial halo CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) from an M6-class solar flare will probably hit the Earth late tomorrow - leaving the chance for a great opening during the morning and possibly through the daytime tomorrow. The Flux will be high again tomorrow, Hood predicts. He also says there is the possibility of an aurora tomorrow after the Earth begins feeling the effects of two recent solar flares, although that is not yet certain.
F2 openings on six meters in recent weeks have provided stunning worldwide DX on the band, conditions some "magic band" veterans describe as the best ever.
Reports on the openings in early and mid-November will be in January's CQ "VHF-Plus" column.
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