[NLRS] AU

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On Jul 21 2009, Jim Johnson wrote:

>Hearing AU on 6M, just noticed it visibly outside...
>
>been a while...
>
>73
>Jim
>KB0CIM EN37


Looks like the aurora oval peaked in our direction a few hours later, about 
0900UTC or about 4 AM CDT:
  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/html/200907220857N18.html

Five hours earlier (around the time Jim noticed it), the aurora activity 
was not quite as intense in our direction, but still quite a bit higher 
than it has been recently:
  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/html/200907220351N18.html

For anyone who is not familiar with the NOAA Aurora Prediction web site, 
here are some URL's of interest:

The list of recent aurora satelite passes is here:
  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/Plots.html

And the POES Auroral Activity home page is here:
  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

The last URL has links to educational information about Aurora and so on, 
as well as links to the aurora activity plots.

And of course, I was sleeping soundly while all this was going on, so I 
never saw or heard any of it. :( But, oddly enough, I was just talking to a 
co-worker (new ham) at work about the subject recently...

73 de WØJT