[Lowfer] VLF Alpha stations

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

I have always had better luck hearing the Alphas at night, especially a  
long 
cold winter night. My Alpha reception seemed to parallel my  low-band
VLF reception from Europe. That is, reception was always better in  a
path of darkness to my location from the transmitter, which was  almost
always early evening hours on the East Coast USA until about 2 AM my  
local time.
 
I have always seen large swings in signal strength on European
VLF  stations between night and day. That is one problem with the  SAQ
transmissions being early in the morning East Coast time when the sun  is
already up in Europe but still dark in the USA. That seems to  be the worst 
time for VLF propagation
from Europe to USA. VLF Propagation seems to improve a bit when both  
Europe and the USA are in sunlight at the same time though.
 
73 - Todd WD4NGG
 
 
Curious about propagation at those frequencies. Do you hear the Alphas  in
the daytime, or only at night. Do you hear them most nights, or only  part
of the time?

-Doug