05-07-2014, 02:09 PM
A long duration M Class Flare has the 20 Meter band pretty quiet. But it does seem to have perked up 17 though 10 meters, and I see some 6 meters spots being posted by the Europeans.
The flare started at 1607 UTC Today at C 2.1, (Wednesday) and peaked at M 1.2 at 1629 UTC. At 1800 UTC is it at C 2.1. The D Layer Absorption Map shows a slight degradation of signals from about 22 mHz down to 3 mHz where the attenuation is about 9 dB.
View the map here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/drap/index.html
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Al - N1API