Editor’s Note: OnAllBands is pleased to post a series of articles written by accomplished amateur radio contester and DX Engineering customer/technical support specialist Kirk Pickering, K4RO. The articles, originally published in the […]

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Solar activity has reached high levels due to a pair of X-class
flares.
 
The first was an X1.8 on November 4 from Region 4274. Associated
with the flare were Type IV radio sweeps, 160 sfu Tenflare, and a
partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) directed mostly off the NE
limb in coronagraph imagery. Although the majority of the ejecta is
expected to pass behind Earth, there is the possibility of a sh...