[NLRS] Last evenings AU

[Ed Marciniak]

The sky was pretty much bright enough to just read by before moonrise and bright enough to notice with the glare of a streetlight 50 feet away in the front yard. This picture was more or less straight overhead so, the aurora extended south of 44 degrees N a mile from home where light pollution drops significantly. A raw image is available if anyone wants it. These were taken with a phone.

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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 8:57:41 AM
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Subject: [NLRS] Last evenings AU

I got off of a Zoom call last night at 7:45pm local and glanced over to see 6m FT8 looking like 20m.  Signals were pure tone at this time so as Barry suggests it was probably Aurora Es as the Kp had rocked to an 8.   Will see if attachments come through the reflector as I attached what the predicted visual aurora zone from NWS Space Weather site looked like at the time.  I was on 6m working east and west, Maine to Oregon, with S9 signals.  The two coasts were working each other too.  There was some 6m CW/SSB activity as well.  Then by about roughly 8:30 pm or so the propagation faded way down leaving only a few weak, ghostly, more aurora like signals on 6m.  FT8 was largely ineffective at this time due to the smearing.  Also interesting was that while the Es were strong on 6m I never heard any 2m signals whatsoever.  In that later evening time slot I did heard K9MRI and one or two others very weak on 2m CW with classic aurora tones, but weak.  I think that the radio aurora was way to south for us (at that time?).  I have a nice picture of a red aurora band or ribbon over my antennas, kinda cool.

NWS/NOAA still maintains a level G4 watch for today.

73, Jon
W0ZQ


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