Re: [IRCA] unstable aurora on AM and FM

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried at 1940 local and couldn't see the Aurora here in NE IL. Re: your 740. C&W I am not sure what you had. I noted WVLN's ESPN (been running 250w day power at night for two years or so) o/u a weak spotty CFZM. CX were semi-AU..nothing crushing.

Listening to my Perseus capture across 1900 CDT, on some channels things started to get more AU during the newscasts and more northern weak stations completely disappeared and sometimes LA's came up. 73 KAZ


-----Original Message-----
>From: Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 25, 2011 9:10 AM
>To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] unstable aurora on AM and FM
>
>On Monday 24 October 2011 23:27:33 Chernos Saul wrote:
>> AM and FM seem largely back to normal, and so is the night sky here at
>>  Burnt River ON. Thus aurora was like passing through the hamlet of Burnt
>>  River - very pretty, but blink and you miss it. Maaybe there will be
>>  more... I have never seen one fade so quickly and heavily between solid
>>  signals from the south-southwest and the 'usual stuff'. Like FM e-skip,
>>  almost. Saul
>
>Yeah, really... AM signals were very fuzzy and fadey, with poor 
>intelligibility.  And then, just as it was starting to get interesting, most 
>of the big gun signals in the east rapidly came back, and the band sounded 
>pretty much normal again.  Any hopes of viewing the aurora were also thwarted 
>by clouds here... all in all, a disappointment compared to events in the past 
>when auroral conditions persisted for days.
>
>One unid I'll mention while I'm here: around 2050 EDT, when CFZM's signal was 
>still in the dumpster, I had a C&W station on 740 that was running Westwood 
>One Weekly Country Music Countdown.  There are several possibilities with the 
>right format, such as WIRJ, but I haven't identified one that is a WW1 
>affiliate.  Any ideas?
>
>Barry
>
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>Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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