{"id":1507,"date":"2023-07-03T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:10:40","slug":"propagation-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/propagation-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagation Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Activity on the Sun has a major impact on ionospheric radio propagation. It affects a variety of forms of HF radio communications, including two-way radio communications, maritime mobile radio communications, radio broadcasting, and amateur radio communications. Knowing the Solar Flux Index and K Index will help you determine current conditions and know what to expect in the near future. There are dozens of sites on the web that provide this data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>For Best Conditions:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Solar Flux <\/strong>should remain above 150 for a few days (scale from 0-300)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K Index<\/strong> &#8211; should be below 2 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A<\/strong> <strong>Index <\/strong>&#8211; 5 or more indicates a geomagnetic storm (scale from 0-9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Citation: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onallbands.com\/who-stole-my-bands-a-look-at-ham-radio-and-the-capricious-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Who Stole My Bands? A Look at Ham Radio and the Capricious Sun<\/a><\/em> &#8211; Mark Haverstock K8MSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activity on the Sun has a major impact on ionospheric radio propagation. It affects a variety of forms of HF radio communications, including two-way radio communications, maritime mobile radio communications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}