[Lowfer] Aurora Tonight?

[mikea]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:55:03PM -0500, Zack Widup wrote:
> It's really weird, the only station I heard on 40 last night was 5N7M
> on 7006. He was working EU and a few USA. I worked him simplex, then a
> few minutes later he went split. I heard a couple of the US stations
> calling him but heard no EU stations here.

> There were no other signals in the CW part of the band.

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh <seanc at unixgeeks.ca> wrote:
> > On 04/05/2010 10:54 PM, JD wrote:
> >> The radio auroral oval is extending pretty far south over the US tonight,
> >> and for good measure, the Bz component of the magnetic field is well
> >> southward too. Anyone in the group seeing visible Northern Lights, or
> >> experiencing radio effects?

> > I tried for several hours to make a contact last night, on 20, 30, 40
> > and 80. All were pretty well dead. After a while I gave up and went back
> > to work on my LF transverter.
> >
> > Overnight I left DM780 running listening to 7.035 USB and I heard all of
> > 3 PSK stations over about 12 hours.

I saw someone in 4-land working a VK on 20 this morning, just before I 
left for work, but I couldn't see the VK's trace at all. The 4-lander
was the only signal on the waterfall this morning, too, where usually
there's a pretty good crowd about 0645 CDT (1145 Z). 

I didn't have time to look on other bands, or go down to the CW segment.

The noise on 20 sounded odd, too, somehow. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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