W4/VP9KF - Propagation

PROPAGATION

eHam

RSGB Propagation Committee

NA5N/GQRP Propagation [PDF]

Hfradio.org

DXLC

Grey Line

Propagation Modes

Propagation Notes IPS (PDF)

Propagation Notes AE4TM

Propagation Notes AE4RV

RBN DXWatch DXfun DXCluster

PSK DXMaps DXHeat

REAL TIME IONOSPHERE

SuperDARN radar measurements

JPLTEC map total electron content

Auroral RT CSSDP

TIMED MLTI

CAPS Spacewx.com

CAPS/Earth Space 4D

SONDES (WIP)

UMLCAR world wide

NGDC dynasondes

UMLCAR world wide

Wallops Is ionosonde

San Juan ionosonde

Boulder ionosonde

Tromso ionosonde

Svalbard ionosonde - off?

IRF (Sweden) ionosondes

PROPAGATION - WEB BASED

VOACAP Point-to-point Area

ITURHFProp Point-to-point Area

PROPAGATION SOFTWARE

Miniprop (W6EL)

ICECAP / ICEAREA / VOACAP / VOAAREA (son of IONCAP) the professional predictor
Guide to using VOACAP very good

HamCap – graphical interface for VOACAP SSN file to 2031

VOAProp – graphical interface for VOACAP SSN file to 2023

WinCap Wizard – graphical interface for VOACAP

ASAPS

PROPLAB-PRO

Space Weather

DX Toolbox

PropView DXView

JHelioviewer

OTHER SOFTWARE

DXAtlas

DXMonitor

BEACONS

International Beacons

BeaconSee analysis tool

OTHER SOLAR INFORMATION

Solar Rotation – more complex than you’d think - more

More about the forecasts

How can SOHO see the sun all of the time?

N'tl Solar Obervatory (USA)

Glossary

Space Weather (AGU)

PAST MISSIONS

Ulysses

POES 1 and 2

BARREL 2009-2015

CURRENT MISSIONS

SOHO (L1)
Mission
Payload
Instruments
(Wikipedia)
What’s a CCD Bakeout? Schedule

DSCOVR - testing at L1 point

GOES Where is GOES 15? 13?

ACE (L1) Real Time Shocks

WIND (L1)

STEREO - NASA Where are they?

STEREO - APL

STEREO - Rutherford

STEREO - Goddard

COSMIC Where are they?

THEMIS Where are they?

SDO Where is it?

VAP IRIS

Neutron Monitors

LAUNCH SCHEDULES

NASA

Ariane

FUTURE MISSIONS

GOLD

LWS - Living with a star

ICON

Solar Probe Plus (July 2018)

Solar Orbiter (Feb 2020)

SET Sept 2016

PUNCH and TRACERS

OTHER SITES

F5LEN - très bien

SolarCycle24 - now solarham

SANSA

Propagation (page reloads every 12 minutes)

solmon_table

SolMon	Geomagnetic Field A	Geomagnetic Field Kp	Solar X-ray status	Proton status	Neutron Event status
Local Data:
Last changed:	2024-11-21 06:05:06Z	2024-11-21 06:05:06Z	2024-11-21 06:29:11Z	2024-11-21 06:29:48Z	2024-11-21 06:29:48Z

solmon_table

N3KL	Geomagnetic Field	Solar X-ray status
Data Derived:

solmon_table

Zone	Current	Forecast (6hr)
POLar
AURoral
SUBauroral

solmon_table_ca

SolMonCA	Current	+6hr	+24hr
POL / AUR / SUB Data

Quick (Simple) look data

This shows, no matter what, about 200 different entities are available every week.
The graphed data could contain "Pirate/SLIM" operations or "busted" callsigns.
You never know. So 'Work First Worry Later'.
This data is now Open Source. You can download here, in .ods format (LibreOffice Calc)
ACE Magnetic Field data 7d 3d 24h 6h 2h
Combined data F:163 A:8 K:1.33 SSN:113 2024-11-21 06:30:04Z




Full SSN forecast page

Divide the number shown here by 100 to calculate the number of MHz that MUF is up or down compared to the last 60 days at the current time. Updates every 15 minutes. Raw data: Wallops Island VA, San Juan PR & Boulder CO ionosondes.

Rigreference data

F6GCI solar data page
F5LEN solar forecast
X-ray plot (1min/3d) and X-ray plot (1min/6h)
Kp Index Plot(3h/3d)
Space Weather Now (NWS)
eSSN (24hrs)
Space Weather
Space Weather Canada Penticton Solar Flux
Sun Nearside & FARSIDE images: 1 | 2 | 3 (SOHO/MDI, SOHO/SWAN, SOHO/SWAN)
Latest SOHO images
Forecast based on current data*
Active Region Monitor
STORM Ionospheric correction factors
Coronal Mass Ejection movie**
WARNINGS currently in effect
Current D layer Absorption
Real Time MUF
VRML (3D) view of Coronal fields* (VRML viewer required)
Mount Wilson Sunspot Count note this is drawn "backwards"
DXRobot (GoodDX)
The Lookers Blog
DXAnywhere Figures^*

*Broadband required * Huge memory resources needed for Flash * Try using: GIF Toggle add-on for Firefox or GIF Scrubber extension for Google Chrome

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2024 Nov 21 0605 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#          Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 20 November follow.
Solar flux 163 and estimated planetary A-index 8.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 21 November was 1.33.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.

No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

Magnetic field reversal now complete, the cycle has completed and should now be heading towards Cycle 25!

Did you know: The Effective Temperature of the Sun is 5770 Kelvin.

SUVI Extreme UV195Å Fe XI, 1.5MK	SUVI Extreme UV 284Å Fe XV, 2MK	SUVI Summary	Nancay 0.9m Not Real Time	Nancay 1.8m Not Real Time
SUVI Extreme UV 171Å Fe IX/X, 1MK	These real-time images follow around the above graphic, except that: EIT 284Å is an additional image VHF/UHF images are not taken in real-time Handy Electromagnetic Spectrum Calculator
EIT Extreme UV 304Å He II, 20kK~100kK
Nobeyama 1.7cm (17GHz)
Meudon Hα 6563Å


GOES-16 X-ray Flux (5 minutes)	GOES-16 X-ray Flux (1 minute)


GOES-16 Electron Flux (5 minutes)	GOES-16 Proton Flux (5 minutes)


K Index (3 hours)	Combined (1 minute)


GOES-16 Magnetometers (1 minute)	Boulder Magnetometer (1 minute)


'Kiel' magnetometer ~location 1 minute resolution	VLF 24kHz signal from NAA Cutler,Maine to Louisville, Kentucky

POES data and OVATION Aurora Prediction


North Pole - 3 day	South Pole - 3 day


North Pole forecast - 30 minutes	South Pole forecast - 30 minutes

Both SOHO and ACE are located at the L1 point between the Earth and Sun. This is about 1.5m km from Earth (or 932,000 miles).

From this vantage point Solar wind data can be detected about 45 to 60 minutes before reaching Earth.


Front Side	Far Side
Key to solar history above	SDO - Soft X-ray image


SDO (straight-on view) [193Å] (SoHO 195Å)	STEREO-A - to the East (looking around back of Sun)
Browse Latest Images	B: Separation angle with Earth 34.27° = 2.67 days = 63.97 hours A: Separation angle with Earth 28.13° = 2.19 days = 52.5 hours STEREO - receiving the data. Between April and June 2015 the datalink didn't reach the Earth. Why? The angle B-Earth is gradually increasing, at the rate of about 0.3 degrees per month. When this gets too large, the signals had to graze the Sun to reach Earth. If the satellites survive ecllipse and the increasing solar activity, then they will remain extraordinary solar sentinals. Antenna pointing is restricted, so signal recovery may be marginal. STEREO-B pointing has failed and may not be recovered. -90°/+90° coverage was achieved in February 2011. With SDO/SoHO that should ensure 360° coverage until 2019 - or until instrument/probe failure or de-funding occurs.
STEREO Information


SDO Magnetogram	SDO MDI - Sunspot indications

How magnetism varies cycle-to-cycle: NORTH=WHITE, SOUTH=BLACK. [polarity is read from left to right]
Cycle 23 (May 1996): In the sun's northern hemisphere, all spots were S-N. In the southern hemisphere, all spots were N-S.
Cycle 24 (Jan 2008): Northern sunspots are N-S while southern sunspots are S-N.
This reversal occurs each time one cycle gives way to the next. It is called Hale's Law.

SWAP EUV SoFAST flare detection

Data on this page courtesy of: esa/SOHO, NASA, Solar Terrestrial Dispatch, Stanford University (Solar Oscillations Investigation group),
spaceweather.com, NW Research Associates, NOAA/SWPC (Space Weather Prediction Center), Lockheed Martin (Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory)
Raben Systems, Inc., n2yo.com, Deep Space Network and the hundreds of ground support team personnel involved in these projects.