The Sun Just Blasted Earth With "Hard Protons"
A radiation storm is underway

Space Weather News for June 8, 2024
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HARD RADIATION STORM: A powerful explosion on the sun today peppered Earth
and nearby spacecraft with "hard" protons. The radiation storm fogged
satellite cameras for hours. Following close behind, a CME is heading for Earth, and its arrival on June 10th could spark G2-class geomagnetic storms. Full story @ Spaceweather.com (https://spaceweather.com) .
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It sure put a dent in the WES SKCC sprintathon this weekend!

I had fast fade on signal like 15 second in and out and then total loss of signal for a few minutes at a time on 40m (7Mhz).

Made low power operations impossible though I was able to copy several stations.

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Made low power operations impossible though I was able to copy
several stations.

I bet it did. Sounds like it will continue to provide issues for at
least another day (today).



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