It was a busy weekend, and has been a busy week so far.  Over the weekend, we finished up CQ World Wide with 1112 contacts, up 103 over last year, even amidst some fairly strong solar flares that caused radio blackouts for a few hours.  Tuesday morning we saw the third-strongest flare on record, an X17, which caused aurora as far south as Houston Tuesday night.  So last night, I took off north to see what I could see.  It was well worth it, and I got a fairly good show.  Being about 10 miles from nowhere, OK without any city lights to be seen helps.  It was also a nice drive, 250 miles and all after sunset.  Made it back here about 2, after being followed for awhile by some hick kids trying to mess with me.  It was an interesting evening.

Upcoming highlights:  Maybe more aurora tonight as a result of an X11 flare yesterday afternoon.  If the Kp index gets up to 8 or 9 there will be a pretty good chance.  Right now its back down to 5.  See spaceweather.com for more about aurora forecasting.