X-class Solar Flare Today.

The 21cm solar flux is still above 200, even if it was reduced a bit.

Today, this afternoon around 16 UTC the sun shot another X-class flare with the magnitude X1.

It looks like some of the sunspot group from last month have survived the rotation, and are now rotating into the Earth faced side of the sun. Look for more solar activity, and possibly some geomagnetic activity.

Remember, with those powerful flares we can also expect some shorter or longer blackouts on the HF bands during daytime, and sometimes also strong radio bursts on the bands from 20-144MHz.

I recall such a solar noise storm from back in the late 1980s when I could monitor 2m, 6m and 2m simultaneously. Interesting that the peaks in the noise were not synchronized over all the bands. The noise bursts would peak, first on one band, then on another, then maybe on the third band, but thal was not guaranteed.

I should get some more (simple) monitor receivers up and running this solar cycle, possibly on a few more frequencies. It is quite possible to make some recording with a simple low powered computer. I would say that with some simple hardware even a Raspberry Pi Pico should be able to do that job. 

Yes, too many projects, so I must prioritize.