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- Subject: 8 p.m. EDT / 0000 UTC: not that auroral yet
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:35:10 -0400
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As of 8 p.m. local Friday, I'm still hearing Lakes area stations such
as CJBC 860 Toronto, so I would say it's not that auroral yet. Reloj
de Cuba is in there but pretty far behind.
Auroral would be some combination of Brazil, Cuba, St. Kitts, and
assorted other stations from the south on 860.
Some TA's are in. 891 and 981 Algerians are packing the most punch.
I'll check again in a couple of hours.
Marc DeLorenzo and I had a lunch get-together today at Seafood Sam's
here in South Yarmouth. Among other subjects we were talking about
classic auroras of the past when Latin American and Florida stations
came in on regional and "graveyard" frequencies in the 1230-1490 kHz
range. It's been a long time since I "surfed" an opening like that.
We're talking about back in the era of one-frequency-at-a-time DXing,
no Perseus or Excalibur SDR's to scoop up the whole band at top-of-hour
ID time for later replay. One can only hope that this current
much-ballyhooed solar occurrence gives us some crazy DX like some of us
remember from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Upside is now many of us have
spectrum-capturing receivers. Downside is that all the Latin American
"splits" (non-10-kHz-multiples) are gone.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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