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

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While driving back from the convention earlier today, I heard someone on 
KITI-1420 tell listeners they might see the aurora borealis tonight.  
I'm not sure where he came up with the suggestion - maybe he got it off 
the newswire. Or perhaps he's a ham or astronomy buff.

Chuck Hutton wrote:
> 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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