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My Space Weather Ops page has been worked on today and had a number of changes bug fixes.

One big update is that there are now double the number of base regions available in the Path Estimator (22 instead of the original 11). There are also new columns for the propagation modes which are active on each path, although I suspect this feature still has some errors, particularly around TEP path estimation.

A small but important change is that the FLARE chip on the very top line now shows the maximum X-ray flux in the last hour instead of the live value as seen in the box below it, so if you've glanced away you can still see the highest flux value reached.

A fault on the D-Rap map background was fixed, along with numerous backend fixes.

https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/space-weather-ops/

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Space Weather

Region AR4409 has been busy popping off one moderate and two minor flares in the past 12 hours.

Peak times on 04 April:
M7.5 01h07 UT R2 HF blackout
M1.7 07h56 UT R1 HF blackout
M1.3 12h10 UT R1 HF blackout

No CMEs were observed.

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Radio Propagation

Sporadic-E clouds over Eastern Europe have raised the MUF towards 100 MHz.

Here we see 6m Es and 2m tropo spots in 3D.

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Space Weather

Geomagnetic conditions have calmed and are now at G1 levels.

Solar wind speed is is just under 700km/s with the Bz between 0 and -5nT.

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Radio Propagation

3D fly-through showing 10m and 6m propagation between South and North America, recorded just now.

The orange clouds (which are drawn a bit too bright!) denote zones of signal refraction for TEP (Trans-Equatorial-Propagation).

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