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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:24:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: LF: Re: Good 136kHz conditions
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Hi Laurence yes I can imagine...... the impact was at around 0800z  The 
bottom of the Dst was around 1500z. NOAA SEC shows the aurora right down to 
the Alaskan coast.

Alan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence KL7 L" <hellozerohellozero@hotmail.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: Good 136kHz conditions


Wasnt a good night last night over here on 136/475 and visual Au seen pre 
dawn as I flew down to Seattle

Laurence KL7L/AM


> On Oct 18, 2015, at 05:56, Alan Melia <alan.melia@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike it is interesting to see that your "Good Conditions" were just 
> before a bout of geomagnetic activity :-))  The Dst was nothing special 
> last night (-40nT) but it plunged to -80nT around noon today.  All the 
> contacts you quote are around the 2000km max range so are one hop and the 
> precipitated hot electrons did not appear until daylight, but it is 
> possible these initially aided the Italian copy and your 2000km daylight 
> paths. These will probably disappear later in the day.
>
> At longer range Roelof reports good signals from Joe VO1NA up to two hours 
> after ground sunrise.  This is a 2-hop path. This could have been due to 
> precipitared electrons "filling" the morning dip on the 2nd hop but it was 
> a little early for that.  There is also my belief that solar wind 
> electrons may aid E-layer ionisation so mild activity may lead to better 
> night-time conditions. My suspicion is that the paths will not be quite so 
> good tonight....we shall see.  The geomagnetic activity does not seem too 
> intense so will probably soon decay, and we will be back to "normal" 
> again.
>
> Alan
> G3NYK
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Dennison" 
> <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>; <rsgb_lf_group@yahoogroups.co.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:53 PM
> Subject: LF: Good 136kHz conditions
>
>
>> Good conditions and activity last night on the 136kHz band. My Op32
>> transmission at midnight UTC last night produced reports from nine
>> countries, including LA, SM, EW6, SV, SP and EA. I also received Op32
>> from Russia and Italy.
>>
>> This morning, my transmission at 1035UTC was reported by three
>> stations around the 2000km mark. IS7SLZ is also readable.
>>
>> A good time to dust off the LF gear.
>>
>> Mike, G3XDV
>> ==========
>>
>>
>
>