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Re: [IRCA] What the AM BCB hobby needs
That intensity might be produced by a super-nova in the near vicinity.
Unfortunately, when the last such supernova occurred, in 1147, there were no
DX'ers around to see what affect it would have. You'd probably need one of
those ULR's anyway. Those who know say such a supernova in the vicinity
would fry every electrical grid in the world anyway, so there might be
nobody to listen to anyway. What does the Dautry song say; "Be careful what
you wish for, you just might get it?"
73's
David
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On Behalf Of Saul Chernos
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] What the AM BCB hobby needs
Those are bloody high indices, and I've no idea what that intensity would
do, if even possible. But everyone seems to complain when the indices climb,
and my experience is there's often DX gems to be had when it does - at least
within the realms of where I've seen in climb. I've hopped over huge
"doughnut holes" to land stations 800-1600 miles away and father, Latin
Americans on US regional channels such as 1300, a 500-watt North Dakotan on
1600 I've only seen once. You need a qwuiet location because of the noise on
the band. Maybe the indices Willis mentions would create such noise that
they'd radiate your teeth, but you need only look to FM for the fun that can
be had when the indices shoot up and an aurora is visible in the sky. I have
had wonderful auroral DX from Burnt River Ontario (about 70 air miles north
of Toronto) out to close to 1000 miles, from Nova Scotia to Nebraska to
North Carolina and (yes, Willis, Tennessee). And you think the AM band gets
noisy? FM is very badly muffled, but there are peaks and valleys and station
volumes can get so strong that they sometimes pierce therough the noise with
an IDable signal. Back to AM. It will probably take a super-duper auroral
for me to land Down Under from Burnt River, or Brazil and Argentina, for
that matter. I know that Cappahayden Newfoundland DXpedition crew once had
tons to Africa and very little to Europe one DXpedition when the indices
were fairly high. I recall it being reported as highly ununsual and much
appreciated. I don't know how high I want to max out at, but - yes - push
those indices!
The above is based solely on my experiences DXing. It would be great if
someone truly knowledgeable about aurorae would speak up. I wonder if many
of you are located in areas where AM DX does tend to get hammered and
nothing else.
Saul Chernos
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bjarne Mjelde" <bjarne.mjelde@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:40 AM
> Subject: [AMFMTVDX] Re: What the AM BCB hobby needs (k4ape)
>
>
>> Why would that benefit the AM BCB hobby? Surely it would wipe out
>> everything at my end.
>>
>> Bjarne
>>
>> amfmtvdx-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev:
>>
>>> I was setting here thinking about what this hobby could use, and came up
>>> with the following.....
>>>
>>> A super blast of particles from the sun, to create an Aurora that can
>>> seen in the day light in Tennessee. With an A index of 254 and K index
>>> of 75.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't that be fun!!! :))))
>>>
>>> 73's
>>>
>>> Willis
>>> Old Fort, TN
>>>
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