Subj : WWV Solar Report
To   : Roy Witt
From : Bob Nocero
Date : Fri Oct 20 2000 06:25 am

 > Hello Bob.

 > 09 Oct 00 06:44, you wrote to Noaa Wwv:

 >  BN> Would someone please explain what the Solar Flux, Boulder A-Index and
 >  BN> Boulder K-Index numbers represent?

 >> # Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment
 >> Center.

 > I believe 'Solar Flux' numbers are the amount of sun-spots per day.

 > The NOAA is located in Boulder, Colorado; which would explain the
 > 'Boulder' before the A-Index and K-Index, but I'm not up to date on what
 > those two indexes mean.

Yeah, I figured as much with "Boulder," but still want to know the meaning in 
the two indexes.  I have heard if both are below 10 (the lower the better) then 
propagation is good on the HF bands.  Someone somewhere knows.

Bob



 > ... Real HAMS do it till their Mega Hertz.
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