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This was a very active week for solar flares and aurora. On Monday
and Tuesday the planetary A index was 55 and 76, indicating a
geomagnetic storm. The planetary A index was high again on Thursday,
June 25 at 33, and the high latitude college A index was 42.  It
turns out that the magnetometer at Fredericksburg, Virginia was
knocked out on five of the seven days, so the mid latitude A index
we are reporting for June 18 to 21 and June 24 are approximations,
or actually wild guesses based on other readings from magnetometers
that were working.  Average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 99.9
during the week of June 11 to 17 to 71.6 a week later. Average daily
solar flux declined from 135.9 to 130.8. Average daily planetary A
index rose from 12.1 to 24.4.  The current outlook from NOAA/USAF
has solar flux at 100 on June 26 and 27, 105 on June 28, 110 on June
29, 115 on June 30, 120 on July 1, 125 on July 2 to 4, 120 on July 5
and 6, 125 on July 7 to 10, 130 on July 11 to 20, 125 on July 21 and
22 and 130 on July 23 and 24.  Predicted planetary A index is 15 and
45 on June 26 and 27, then 60, 18 and 8 on June 28 to 30, 5 on July
1 to 4, then 25, 15 and 12 on July 5 to 7, then 10, 5 and 8 on July
8 to 10, 18, 12 and 8 on July 11 to 13, 5 on July 14 to 17, 8 on
July 18 and 19, 5 on July 20 to 31, then 25, 15, 12 and 10 on August
1 to 4.  Petr Kolman, OK1MGW believes the geomagnetic field will be
quiet to active on June 26 and 27, mostly quiet June 28 to 30, quiet
July 1 and 2, quiet to unsettled July 3, active to disturbed July 4,
quiet to active July 5, quiet to unsettled July 6 to 8, mostly quiet
July 9 and 10, quiet to active July 11 and 12, quiet to unsettled
July 13 and 14, mostly quiet July 15 to 17, quiet to unsettled July
18, and quiet to active July 19 to 22.  Rich Zwirko, K1HTV reported
on June 21, Here in the Mid Atlantic at the K1HTV Amissville, VA
QTH, the Magic Band came alive just before 1600Z on Fathers Day,
June 21. The first of 13 countries that I worked were all from a
southerly direction.  NP3CW was first in the log, followed by Yuri,
UT1FG/MM in EL59 off the Cuban coast, CO3JA, 6Y5WJ, YV4NN and XE2CQ
in DM12 northwestern Mexico.  From 1650Z to 1750Z I worked 17
stations in W6 and W7 land. During that same hour, stations from GA
and FL to as far west as NM and XE2 were working into HA, S5, YT,
IS0, 9A and DL, but all I heard to the east during that hour was
F2DX calling XE2X.  It wasnt until 1845Z that I heard European DX
here. In the next 65 minutes I worked I0JX, IK5MEJ, IZ5BRW and
IK5PWJ, HA8CE, ON7BG, OK1DO, G4DBL, S59A, HA8FK, PA2M and ON4IQ.
That was it for DX to the east for the day.  Local late afternoon to
early evening produced many more double hop QSOs to the West Coast,
15 stations in AZ, 15 in CA, 3 in NM and 1 in NV.  Archives of the
NOAA/USAF daily 45 day forecast for solar flux and planetary A index
are in downloadable spreadsheet format at //bit.ly/1IBXtnG and
//bit.ly/1KQGbRm .  Click on Download this file to download the
archive and ignore the security warning about file format. Pop up
blockers may suppress download. Ive had better luck with Firefox
than IE.  Sunspot numbers were 82, 74, 89, 79, 77, 61, and 39, with
a mean of 71.6. 10.7 cm flux was 150.8, 137.3, 135.4, 131.7, 135,
116.1, and 109.5, with a mean of 130.8. Estimated planetary A
indices were 7, 5, 3, 8, 55, 76, and 17, with a mean of 24.4.
Estimated mid latitude A indices were 6, 4, 2, 7, 57, 47, and 15,
with a mean of 19.7.

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