Bottom line: Is this good for ham radio or not?
Depends on whether you are a ham or not...................
I’m very new at learning about ham radio, but here’s an article from the ARRL regarding interaction between the Sun and Earth. (I don’t know the date of this - it drives me nuts that so many articles that I find on the Internet aren’t dated - or I just don’t know how to find the date :-(
http://www.arrl.org/here-comes-the-sun
(I recall some years ago when we had a lot of flare activity, some modes of communication kept breaking up, which might suggest that ‘quiet is better’ - but it’s apparently much more complex than that...)