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Auroral alert - X and M-class flares hurtling off the sun

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crainbebo

Sunspot AR2887 has hurtled off an explosive X1 flare and multiple M-class flares. A shortwave radio blackout was reported in South America and a CME has been launched directly towards Earth. Time to point the antennas south in the next 24 to 48 hours, things could get very interesting. Events like this bring exotic DX from South America and Latin America to the east, and graveyarders from CA/NV along with rare XEs to the west.
This was reported according to https://spaceweather.com/.
 
crainbebo said:
Sunspot AR2887 has hurtled off an explosive X1 flare and multiple M-class flares. A shortwave radio blackout was reported in South America and a CME has been launched directly towards Earth. Time to point the antennas south in the next 24 to 48 hours, things could get very interesting. Events like this bring exotic DX from South America and Latin America to the east, and graveyarders from CA/NV along with rare XEs to the west.
This was reported according to https://spaceweather.com/.
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Thank you for the alert! So far nothing too big is happening for me, although shortwave is noiser in general, and on MW, some stations are piling on top of another that normally wouldn't. I got WLS without the KRVN adjacent channel interference; It's nice that WGN, WBBM, and WLS all use musical legal IDS.
 
Impacts of the CME have been delayed due to a crack that opened in Earth's magnetic field, according to SpaceWeather. This means the CME effects may come very late tonight or tomorrow.
Conditions are relatively normal with KOA on top of 850 and CJDC Dawson Creek on top of 890.
 
Thursday night/Friday morning conditions were relatively normal, but on Friday night/Saturday morning East-West conditions were bad. I checked various SDRs and it seemed similar on all of them.
 
Sunday morning conditions between 3:30 and 4:00AM CDT varied. Nothing from the north on the Key West SDR. The Arctic SDR completely dead. On the Iceland SDR good east coast signals from WCBS, WINS, WBZ, WEPN, and WBBR. KDKA in, but weak.
On the Kaneohe, Hawaii SDR it was wide open to the mainland. WBBM good and all alone over KKOH. KSL good. The usual West coast blowtorches including KNX were strong. Last night none of these stations were in.
 
I was going to try for it last night/this morning. Unfortunately, Mrs. Cyberdad got me hooked on a few episodes of "The Morning Show". And thenm I slept through the rest of th night. Hopefully I'm not late for the party when I make it a point to check out conditions this evening/pre dawn tomorrow morning.
 
I tuned around on the way home from Gatlinburg to Knoxville, all the northern clears were in, except CFZM was almost completely covered by KRMG.
 
There will NOT be a strong auroral event, I'm sorry folks. SpaceWeather reports that the CME hit this morning and only gave off a so-so G1 (weak) geomagnetic storm. We were tricked on Halloween apparently.
Oh well, next time I guess.
 
crainbebo said:
There will NOT be a strong auroral event, I'm sorry folks. SpaceWeather reports that the CME hit this morning and only gave off a so-so G1 (weak) geomagnetic storm. We were tricked on Halloween apparently.
Oh well, next time I guess.
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I can remember a full week of not being able to get WLW in East Tennessee, with it being replaced by Wylie TX.
 
crainbebo said:
There will NOT be a strong auroral event, I'm sorry folks. SpaceWeather reports that the CME hit this morning and only gave off a so-so G1 (weak) geomagnetic storm. We were tricked on Halloween apparently.
Oh well, next time I guess.
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Thanks for the update. I guess this is why signals were so good on the Iceland SDR. WEGR in Maine was the strongest I ever heard last night.
 
Mostly normal conditions here northwest of Chicago this evening around 9:30 CDT. Exception is WCCO which is weaker than normal. But CBW is in with a fair-good signal. CFZM also sounds about the same as always....strong.
 
Conditions early this morning were mostly normal for me although I've noticed conditions on the Key West SDR were not good for the last two days.
 
radioman148 said:
Conditions early this morning were mostly normal for me although I've noticed conditions on the Key West SDR were not good for the last two days.
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Same here this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary. I haven't been on the Key West SDR for a week or so, however.
 
cyberdad said:
Same here this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary. I haven't been on the Key West SDR for a week or so, however.
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About the only thing I've heard on Key West is Miami stations. That and some Cuban stations are about all I have heard in the last few nights.
 
radioman148 said:
About the only thing I've heard on Key West is Miami stations. That and some Cuban stations are about all I have heard in the last few nights.
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Hard to imagine that an auroral event would affect an SDR in Key West. I'd presume some other reason impacting things.
 
radioman148 said:
They must be intermittent because last week I was getting good reception on it.
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Yes, it's been intermittent. I believe the Key West SDR having one of those episodes was the source of an erronious report that all Cuban AMs were off the air during the protests last summer
 
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