Re: [IRCA] This AM is REALLY bad...

["Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

We did get hit with a little auroral storm last night. The K index was 5 and
a picture of the auroral oval at
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/html/200609241324N17.html shows that the aurora
extended well down into British Columbia. It surely chewed up the BC to
Japan paths but maybe Oregon escaped the majority of the effect.

Or so I guess.

What I am more curious about is why Saturday AM was so poor. The A and K
numbers don't explain it. Does anyone know what frequencies are used to
formulate the A and K values?


Chuck 


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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 4:55 PM
To: Guy Atkins; cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] This AM is REALLY bad...

At 12:57 PM 9/24/2006, Guy Atkins wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I just got back about 30 min. ago from the convention, and John is heading
>north for the 3 o'clock ferry.
>
>I tuned some key frequencies, very briefly this morning, well past sunrise
>(was up somewhat later last night with the IRCA crowd). I turned on the
Eton
>E1 at 1420, and found rather large signals in clearly Japanese audio on
774,
>693, and 594. They were far better than Saturday morning at Seaside, even
>during prime time at max dawn! Go figure.


Now that's strange.  Without a doubt things were far, far worse this morning
compared to yesterday morning!  

> If I had been doing a chart, they
>would have been definite 7's, maybe an 8 on 594.
>
>The signals were peaking late, and overriding the local noise.

Yes, we saw that as well.  Very late peak, after 14:00 in fact.

> Antenna was
>the same 15 ft. ALA100 loop strung around the inside of the room (too, we
>were on the east side of the complex, away from a clear shot at arriving
>signals, with two floors of building over our heads! The signals had to
>really work to get to the antenna.
>
>We really enjoyed the convention, I think there were 35 in attendance. It
>was great to meet some well-known DXers like Nigel Pimblett and Neil
>Kazaross. You guys would have enjoyed Nigel's PPT slides of his Alberta
>antenna farm (wagonwheel o'Beverages) and also Scott Fybush's radio tower
>photographs and talk.

Wagonwheel or Beverages you say.....sigh!  Wouldn't that be magnificent!
Thanks for the information, Guy!




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