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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:37:59 -0000
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Subject: LF: Eclipse March 20th 2015
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Hi all, it may not have registered with many yet as it has not made the 
National TV news but there is a partial eclipse of the sun due on March 20th 
2015.

As part of my involvement with the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee it 
occurs to me that this is a fine opportunity to roll out the capabilities of 
Opera, and WSPR and the monitoring network on 136 and 477kHz.

The path of the totallity pases due north of the  UK with only Shetland 
seeing a full eclipse. The majority of the UK is rated around 80% . The most 
interesting paths are those from the opposite side of the path of totality. 
Unfortunately (or otherwise :-))  ) the only LF-active area on the other 
side is Iceland, and I know there is a "grabber" operator active there. I 
suggest some interesting results could be obtained if European stations 
could be active into the Iceland grabber during the period of the eclipse 
which is 07:40 to 11:40 UTC (I think we should be on GMT still in the UK at 
that date :-))  ) I am not fully sure what facilities the Icelandic operator 
has but maybe someone who knows him better could liaise a suitable set up.

It is obviouly not as big an event as 1999 but could prove interesting.

Alan Melia
G3NYK