Radio Propagation Information
Useful
Links
The Australian Ionosheric
Prediction service LINK
T-Index menu
The T-index chart: This image shows the DIFFERENCE between current OBSERVED HOURLY conditions and PREDICTED MONTHLY conditions for the Australian region. The colours blue, green, yellow, red, correspond to "enhanced", "normal", "mildly depressed" and "depressed" conditions respectively. Depressions and enhancements are with respect to the IPS predicted monthly T index for that month.
The T-index chart: This image shows the DIFFERENCE between current OBSERVED HOURLY conditions and PREDICTED MONTHLY conditions for the Australian region. The colours blue, green, yellow, red, correspond to "enhanced", "normal", "mildly depressed" and "depressed" conditions respectively. Depressions and enhancements are with respect to the IPS predicted monthly T index for that month.
The real time Ionosonde. Sorry I can't embed this active picture here. Go to the link page and select "Hobart" to
see the layer conditions and find out the vertical MUF. Adjusting the "Amp Threshold" level up will mask out weaker reflections.
FoF2 layer trends
See the MUF of the layers trended
Legend: White solid line indicates monthly predicted foF2. White dashed line indicates monthly predicted foF2 +/- 30%.
Red solid line indicates hourly observed (autoscaled) foF2 from that station. Yellow solid line indicates sporadic E (foEs).
Blue squares indicates hourly autoscaled foF1 from that station.
Ionosperic map
Shows current vertical MUF across australia.
Hobart HAP chart
Shows the "real time" best frequency to use to a nearby destination from Hobart.
Propagation map
See the predictions of what frequencies go where. Select "Amateur" instead of "Arbitary". Click on your location so that the
word "BASE" appears. Then click beyond the area you are interested in and drag the mouse diagonally across the area to select
an area. Then click on the "Do Prediction" button. A new page opens on your browser with links to 4 images to cover the
whole day. A similar series of maps like the picture above.
From
http://www.solen.info/solar/
What the trends are:
Black line is solar flux, 60 is about as low as I have seen it at solar minimum.
A good sunspot cycle can see numbers over 160
Blue line is planetary A index, a good measure of how disturbed the ionosphere
is. Below 10 gives stable propagation conditions.
Red Line is sunspot numbers.
Black line is solar flux, 60 is about as low as I have seen it at solar minimum.
A good sunspot cycle can see numbers over 160
Blue line is planetary A index, a good measure of how disturbed the ionosphere
is. Below 10 gives stable propagation conditions.
Red Line is sunspot numbers.
