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</style></div><div>Hi Fred,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The Penticton solar flux index is measured every day at 2000Z.</div><div>Solar flare activity just before 2000Z contaminated the measurement.</div><div>The 2300Z Penticton solar flux index was 134.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="https://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/forecast-prevision/solar-solaire/solarflux/sx-5-flux-en.php" data-mce-href="https://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/forecast-prevision/solar-solaire/solarflux/sx-5-flux-en.php">www.spaceweather.gc.ca/forecast-prevision/solar-solaire/solarflux/sx-5-flux-en.php</a><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" data-mce-style="mso-special-character: line-break;"><!-- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" data-mce-style="mso-special-character: line-break;"><!--[endif]--></span></span><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">73</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Frank</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Courier; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">W3LPL</span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>To: </b>"K3EW" <phillipbarsky@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"ncdxa" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, August 29, 2022 1:49:49 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NCDXA] SFI BEING REPORTED AT 252<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I find it hard to believe that the SFI was able to jump so much from one three-hour period to the next. However I don't see any discussion of this sudden increase on propagation websites thus far.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I was in the YO DX Contest and the Brazilian CVA Contest last night and today. I found a curious lack of front-to-back ratio on 40 meter signals last night on my 40 meter beam, as though signals were arriving at an angle so high that the beam's ability to handle them in a normal fashion was diminished.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As for the CVA Contest during the day Sunday, I found that absorption on 20 and 15 meters was so high toward Brazil that I kept on returning to 10 meters again and again. Ten became the band that just kept on giving. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Interesting times...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">73, Fred, K3ZO <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 8:48 PM Phillip Barsky via NCDXA <<a href="mailto:ncdxa@ncdxa.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ncdxa@ncdxa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'georgia' , serif;font-size:small">10 AND 15 SHOULD BE A BLAST TOMORROW</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'georgia' , serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'georgia' , serif;font-size:small">GL 73 PHIL K3EW</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'georgia' , serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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