MONITORING REPORT - 13 MHz SPECTRUM

Sunspot activity has suddenly increased on Sep 11 2014. The 10 cm Solar Radio Flux has risen to 160, and the Daily Equivalent Sunspot Number has molvd up to 114. 

This means that long-haul, multi-hop propagation over darkness or partial-darkness paths on frequencies above about 15 MHz has improved significantly, 

Below 15 MHz, this is a summary of what the 13 MHz band looked like between 1930 and 2000, on Sep 11 2014, as observed here in Melbourne, presunrise:

13580 BANGLADESH Bengali
13640 INDIA Arabic
13650 KUWAIT R. Kuwait Arabic
13660 ENGLAND BBC-Woofferton English
13740 FRANCE RFI Issoudin French
13760 N. KOREA VOK Spanish