Solar Activity and HF Propagation

What's the sun up to?  Sunspots?  Flares?  See for yourself.

Extreme Ultraviolet He II
NASA - Goddard

Extreme Ultraviolet Fe IX
NASA - Goddard

Soft X-Ray Telescope
Hiraiso - Japan
These are today's images, direct from NASA and Japan. Click for enlargements.
If the image says CCD Bakeout, click here to learn about that process.

If the images don't display automatically, clicking on one of them usually fixes it.


NOAA RESOURCES
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

NOAA Station A and K Indices

  • The bar graphs show the degree of geomagnetic disturbance.
  • The A and K indices are related, but the K index will be a more up-to-date indication.
  • For the K index, lower is better and zero is great.
  • The Boulder K index is also available from radio station WWV hourly at :18 on 2.5, 5 and 10 MHz.

NOAA Space Weather Overview (bar graphs)

  • Solar X-ray Flux
    (Orders of magnitude of solar flares are represented by the letters A (lowest), B, C, M and X (highest intensity).
  • Solar Proton Flux
  • Geomagnetic Activity
DOMINION OBSERVATORY INDICES
SPACE WEATHER CANADA
SPACE WEATHER FOR A MODERN WORLD
HF PROPAGATION LINKS
DX QSL Net
OTHER PROPAGATION RESOURCES

Maximum Usable Frequency Links




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modified 2/05/2022