GB2RS Propagation News
Propagation News – 6 April 2025
We had a week of mixed solar conditions, but it ended with an SFI of 182 and a Kp of 3.67 on Thursday 3 April. The geomagnetic field declined to quieter levels following a prolonged period of active, Kp4 conditions earlier on Wednesday due to solar wind enhancements. This impacted propagation, with the critical frequency […]
Propagation News – 30 March 2025
Last week’s space weather was dominated by a large coronal hole on the Sun. This was probably one of the largest we have seen for many years. Moderate, G2, geomagnetic storming was observed following the arrival of a solar wind stream from the hole, with the wind speed exceeding 600 km/s on Wednesday 26 March. […]
Propagation News – 23 March 2025
Last week was pretty unremarkable from an HF perspective. After the disturbed geomagnetic conditions on the 12 to the 14 when the Kp index rose to five, conditions were a little more settled. The solar flux index hit 204 on the 17 March but then declined back to the 180s. Having said that things were […]
Propagation News – 16 March 2025
We’ve had another week of disturbed geomagnetic conditions with the Kp index at four or five for long periods. On the evening of the 12 March, Kp was five and, at the time of writing, has stayed there for a total of five three-hour periods. This has taken its toll on the ionosphere with MUFs […]
Propagation News – 9 March 2025
We started last week with geomagnetic disturbances that saw the Kp index rise to a maximum of 5.67 on the 28 February and then hover around the 4.5 mark for the next couple of days. As predicted, the rest of the week went quite well, with the Kp index in the range of one to […]
Propagation News – 2 March 2025
We had another week of mixed geomagnetic conditions. The Kp index rose to a high of five with visible aurora over the UK at times. Two large coronal holes are now both facing Earth. A solar wind stream flowing from these zones is expected to flow past Earth, possibly on Friday 28 February or Saturday […]
