Re: [IRCA] 8 p.m. EDT / 0000 UTC: not that auroral yet

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may take a day for the AU cx to build up.  73 KAZ

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>From: Rick Dau <drummer1965us@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Nor it is here.  The K index at Boulder is 6, yet I'm getting Grand Forks, North Dakota on 1310 and 1370 and Sioux Falls on 1270.  Just wondering where the good auroral DX has disappeared off to...  73,Rick Dau (heading to Billings for the convention next week)South Omaha, Nebraska
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>Subject: 8 p.m. EDT / 0000 UTC: not that auroral yet
>From: 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.
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>Auroral would be some combination of Brazil, Cuba, St. Kitts, and 
>assorted other stations from the south on 860.
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>Some TA's are in.  891 and 981 Algerians are packing the most punch.
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>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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