Monday, 18 November 2019 - 20:12 UTC

Coronal hole faces Earth

Maybe the above was responsible for the weaker and more dynamic range in signal strength today than we have seen recently.  

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17:32 KP2AE-JOE: Hearing AB4AM on SSB

17:32 W4DEX-DEX: Lots of fast QSB on the short path to KP2AE

17:32 W4DEX-DEX: Signals good on peaks but deep fast fades

17:36 WW8II-BRUCE: KG0VL 519 SLOW QSB BUILDING TO 539

17:37 WW8II-BRUCE: SOLID 539 AT THE END

17:37 W4DEX-DEX: KG0VL barely detectable at the start then built up to 439 at end of the 2 min xmission

17:38 KG0VL-JEFF: K5HFG right at the noise threshold, but I can make out Don's call

17:39 KG0VL-JEFF: AB4AM good CW signal now into Iowa

17:40 W4DEX-DEX: AB4AM initially 439 now up to only 549

17:41 AB4AM-ROB: K5HFG in the noise

17:41 WW8II-BRUCE: NOW COPY AB4AM 449 IN THE NOISE

17:41 KG0VL-JEFF: AB4AM went from 529 to gone in sixty seconds.

17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: W4DEX IN THE NOISE

17:42 WW8II-BRUCE: COPY W4DEX VERY WEAK

17:43 AB4AM-ROB: W4DEX came out of the noise to 589 the quickly back into the noise...Hearing on Inverted V and nothing on K9AY...

17:44 KG0VL-JEFF: W4DEX signal up and down, Q5 to no signal. Much like ocean waves, ebb and flow.

17:45 W4DEX-DEX: WW8II barely detectable.....built up a bit at the end

17:45 W4DEX-DEX: spaceweatherlive.com reporting coronal-hole-facing-earth

17:46 K5HFG: light copy on ww8ii to no copy

17:46 KG0VL-JEFF: WW8II like the others today, strong signal to not being heard.

17:49 WW8II-BRUCE: SOLAR WIND PUSHING HARD ON THE EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD

17:50 KP2AE-JOE: Having trouble copying W4DEX...AB4AM was 549 on CW

17:53 W4DEX-DEX: Losing the path to KP2AE
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