• 1...Introduction
• 1.1...Fun with radio, a hobbist's dash into the ionosphere..
• 1.2...Some Definitions
• 1.3...Short Bibliography
• 2...Background
• 2.1...Solar flares
• 2.2...Earth's ionosphere
• 2.3...Radio wave propogation
• 3...Solar flare detection by shortwave radio
• 3.1...Daily record
• 3.2...Seasonal variations
• 3.3...Flare responce
• 3.4...Unsettled to active field responce
• 4...Serendipity
• 4.1...Ionization Problem
• 4.2...Poor man's Ionosonde
• 4.3...Density waves
• 5...Some general observations concerning radio propogation
• 5.1...Signal strength by season
• 5.2...Signal strength by solar activity
• 5.3...The "grass", noise revealed
• 6...Postscript 2010
• 6.1...Monitoring with the Icon R75

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