Mal - Im lucky the antennae in Alaska are some what protected by the Birch forest and the Hurricane force winds and heavy snow over the past week.
Ive attached a link (courtesy NOAA) to the Eu to West Coast/KL7 as a rough indication of the path and how it crossed the Auroral zone - this was taken at 1400Z so after the morning opening and the zone having rotated Westwards but gives an appx route and the fact Stefans signal had to pass thru, under or around the Ovals.. Proton figures are low at the moment which is making me smile..
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[email protected]Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:08 +0000
Subject: LF: Re: DK7FC/Mal
Hi Laurence
We seem to be on the same course.
I have only ever managed to work/QSO KL7, VE7, W6 etc an hour or two leading up to my sunrise but I have worked ZL both pre sunset and pre sunrise from here, maybe I was not there on the day that pre sunset was optimum for KL7 and that general area.
Generally I work as far West as W9/W5 during my late evening early morning time and then as time progresses towards pre sunrise I hear/QSO the extreme West towards the Pacific coast areas.
This has been over the years on 160 metres and there are similarities with 500 khz and to some extent 137 Khz
This procedure has worked for me when hunting DX
73 De Mal/g3kev, cold at present around 2 degs C, frosty but no snow around Scarborough
