[HFbeacons] MUF in Brazil

  • From: Dieter Pelz <dpelz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:11:09 +1000


Brazil still enjoys high daytime MUF. If we multiply the f0F2 MUF data below by a factor 3 which gives us approximately the MUF(3000km) then we get values greater than 20 MHz. The night-time MUF seems to drop very low down to 2 MHz which is bad news for HF communication at that time.

73

Dieter, VK3FFB

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/IONO/rt-iono/realtime/SAA0K_foF2.png

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