At the time I'm writing this, we've got a spot count of 122 and a flux of 152. It wasn't that long ago we had a nice zero spot count and flux down in the low seventies. Oh how things have changed.
Well HF propagation has certainly not been consistant, and it's made a mockery of the lower bands. This time last month we even had a distinct lack of short skip on 80m which for the RSGB 80m Club Championship is a bit of a disaster, when you can hear the Russians but can't hear anyone else in the UK. At least this week it's been better.
17m has been staying open well after the sun sets and 15m has been nicely in action. Until of course we get another blast of the solar wind and everything vanishes.
We have plenty of spots, coronal holes and turning the dial is a bit of a white knuckle ride. We're getting flares we didn't have a year ago, and we're hearing stations we couldn't hear last year. All a bit different from the "doom and gloom" scenario a while back. Crumbs, I may even have to make up an antenna for 12m at this rate (a full wave loop by the way - I'm a bit pushed for space at home).
There's a CME heading our way for the 9th or 10th March, so may produce some nice aurora for some, or a load of noise for others. On the other hand, some interesting VHF contacts with some very wobbly CW (morse).
