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Re: [IRCA] Auroral question

Au contraire, Brother Bill. The short term enhancement just as a geomagnetic storm arrives has been noted for a long time. Doesn't always happen and isn't always big. I know of no explanation for it.

Chuck
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From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Auroral question

Yes, that's the first rule - NEVER let some geomag prediction keep you from the dials!  Nobody here will bet you a new car [or even an old one] that X will happen if the geomag conditions are Y.

About the same time all sorts of particles were apparently hitting the ionosphere and driving up the A-index I was having the best TA conditions in a long time in the mid-Atlantic.

That's not what one normally expects.

Go figure ...

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA

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> On Oct 25, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Your guess is probably a reasonable one - given that there's a lot of
> variables.
>
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NW Phila
> Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (4) barefoot w/whip
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
> Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 4);
> modified Sony ICF2010's (3) w/APS9B @ 15';
> modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Mark Pettifor <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Are there any "hard and fast" rules about what areas for DX reception will
>> be enhanced when auroral conditions exist? (Excluding the gray line effect)
>>
>> My experience so far has been that it seems to favor the deep south and
>> Central / South America from my location (N. Indiana). It's probably
>> location-dependent, I would guess.
>>
>> Best rule is just listen and see what shows up, eh?  :^)
>>
>> Planning on seeing something interesting this evening, after the K-index
>> spike today. (While watching the world series of course...)
>>
>> Mark
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