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From: "Alan Melia" <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:34:36 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: SAQ and VO1NA
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Hi Laurence, yes you will experience much more interaction with the Geomag
effects on a path like yours crossing the polar region. At a period like
this when there is a proton event, quite a big one, there will be a lot of
PCA (Polar Cap Absorption) as well as all the other nasties that abound in
those regions. Surprisingly enough there was not a lot of auroral activity
which may suggests that although we got a Kp=7 event the shock front only
made a glancing collision with the magnetoshpere.

There is a suggestion that the next expected CME (today sometime) probably
will not be fully Earth facing. This spot certainly has been another big-un
I cant remember many even at the peak that produced so many X-rated
flares....there was another this morning 0800z ish. Joe was very poor
strength here last night. I can just detevct a trace , not decodable, from
him at about 0200z and some traces around 0500 but very weak. I think he
must be about 20dB down on normal.

Cheers de Alan G3NYK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence KL1X" <hellozerohellozero@hotmail.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: 20 January 2005 03:14
Subject: RE: LF: SAQ and VO1NA


> Alan the previous few hours had shown up to 20dB variations of signals of
> the Eu path from here on signals near 20Khz - I found this sort of
> variability before on TransPolar paths during these disturbed periods on
the
> lower LF freqs  and certainly not the stable daytime path you'd (I'd)
> expect. Period  radom fades were in the order of just 30 secs.