Sunspot group 3664 is back, and threw out an X 2.9 flare this morning around 0700z. The associated ionisation wiped out the 80 metre Net I usually participate in on Monday mornings. All across the band all I could hear was local QRM, and it seemed the Hack Green SDR was similarly affected.
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I was going to take the hound out early, get back and activateTinto as the WX forecast was for a dry day. Well the forecast changed to wet from 11.00 till 2.30 and then I got the flare email. 
There was some blue in the sky and it was warmer, about 18C after 14C yesterday. Dog walked and it’s pouring down now. And the sky is a bit broken again. I think I’ll get the Gin out and watch reruns of Roger Moore and lovely 1960s ladies (no Botox, no boob jobs, no tattoos) in The Saint now.
Ah, DXHeat churning away now… SpE must have just kicked in on 6m…
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Yes, but it’s all FT8. Ah well, I will keep monitoring…
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I think this is what triggered the flare alert:
But it seems to have settled down again - just a forwarning of what is to come!
73 Ed.
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I did something useful, I repaired a 26m length of FSJ4-50B that got damaged in the May 2m contest. Someone didn’t know “righty tighty, lefty loosty” and managed to sheer an Andrew F4PNF-C female N connector from the cable. Don’t know who or how. Anyway to refit the connector you need to use the disposable flare tool which I thought “maybe useful” but cannot find it now. So I had to fit a male instead which had all the parts in the bag. Annoying because they’re £35 a pop. But it’s fixed now. During which time it has rained and been sunny. Over and over
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On Monday afternoon I found an EA6 station on SSB but nobody else. Plenty on FT8 calling CQ but completed contacts were, well, sporadic.
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Ten days ago whilst activating Spartleton GM/SS-182, I heard a couple of Italian stations on 6m SSB but no one came back to my calls or spot.
Andy
MM7MOX
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