Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] auroral activity

[Chernos Saul <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Burnt River ON as soon as the sun was close to setting I had a pipeline to the US midwest (IL IA MN WI) that included GYers such as East St. Louis IL on 1490. This soon veered south and every channel above 1230 had a local high school basketball game from KY and IN, with a few TN stations tossed in. Then it veered back up to include everything from KY and IN to WI and MN. Never much further beyond that, but for instance I was finally able to isolate the Radio Disney from Belvedere IL on 1260, which serves St. Louis. I lucked into a local break, which is rare on Disney. Normally I can't tell if it's Erie PA! 

I was primarily working my new directional flag aimed ssw, and there were a few Mexicans and Cubans here and there as well. Mostly usual suspects, like 1060 Mexico City, but with exceptional signals. Close top midnight, the band broke open to the south and sw into Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, and who knows what else. I have a few unIDs. Some Spanish stations were US-based - like the 980 out of SC, which I had new just a few days ago I received again. This time I //ed it to the El Sol 980-1480 web stream. I managed also to //800 XEROK out of Mexico for a new catch.

800 was interesting - for over an hour no sign of CJBQ or CKLW, my two high-powered semilocal pests. Instead it was the triad of a 250-watter from Casey IL, XEROK and a sports station I think was from Iowa (one of many unID audio clips to review).

I heard something non-English on 1100 and hauled Globo up on the web audio stream, but it was a completely different program. And 1100 sounded more Spanish than Portuguese (it was weak).

What's also interesting is this aurora - K6 at its outset at sunset but by 3am down to K3 - did not wipe out channels to the point of zero, as it often does - although some DXers not far from me reported empty channels. I'd chalk that down perhaps to my northerly, noise-free location. And the new flag and other north-south one are performing as they should. Though at one point I had 680 CFTR (680 News) all over the section from 1600-1800 and other crap elsewhere...a loose connection, whatever, I checked the antenna outside, unplugged and replugged a few things inside, and at some point it simply corrected itself. No idea why.

Seven new catches from sunset thru to 3am local time. Not including dozens of unIDs and clips to go through. I return home early Saturday and somehow I think it's reasonable that my time up here, this trip, is about up.

Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON



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> From: markwa1ion@xxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:11:31 -0500
> Subject: [NRC-AM] auroral activity
> 
> In a few minutes of listening before bed last night, I noted some good 
> South American signals as well as the usual pile of Cubans.
> 
> Fortaleza, Brazil good on 760 with Portuguese talk that seemed 
> religious.
> 
> Caracas, Venezuela booming on 750 with Venezuelan National Anthem.
> 
> Spanish loud on 780 over WBBM: probably Coro, Venezuela.
> 
> All this at about 11:25-11:30 p.m. EST / 27 FEB = 0425-0430 UTC / 28 
> FEB.
> 
> I was using the Palstar R30C upstairs as it was rather chilly in the 
> basement where I keep the other gear.
> 
> Tonight I'll set up for a Perseus capture or two.
> 
> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA
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