{"id":14302,"date":"2025-06-02T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:17:02","slug":"very-poor-band-condition-on-40m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/very-poor-band-condition-on-40m\/","title":{"rendered":"Very poor band condition on 40m!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtRwiPj9-FM?si=sbWwNOaZQrVqDNKU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very poor band condition on 40m today morning. Most likely it is due to the recent coronal mass ejection from the Sun disrupting radio propagation through the ionosphere. QRZ.COM shows fair propagation on most bands both during day and night. Planetary K index was in the red, though it shows green for the past three hours. I have noted this difference earlier as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very poor band condition on 40m today morning. Most likely it is due to the recent coronal mass ejection from the Sun disrupting radio propagation through the ionosphere. QRZ.COM shows fair propagation on most bands both during day and night. Planetary K index was in the red, though it shows green for the past three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-radio-ham-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Very poor band condition on 40m! - Johnson&#039;s Techworld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/very-poor-band-condition-on-40m\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Very poor band condition on 40m! - Johnson&#039;s Techworld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Very poor band condition on 40m today morning. 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