Beacon away Stefan -:-)  Im looking at HF conditions over the Pole,  QRSS snapper at  http://kl7uk.com/Alaska.html  and I can normally very roughly scale these for LF/MF - ie "when its not good on any HF band to Eu its likely that MF or LF will be worse syndrome" - this only holds for here....
 
At the moment Im seeing only weak signals with some spreading at 10MHz with that lovelyfast doppler sound which again isnt a good sign - and thats with a K=1 at mid lat.
 
I didnt see any Aurora last night as I was fixing up my 8 inch Meade telescope but had difficulty in looking at anything as the water vapor from my eye condensed and froze onto the viewfinder. Takes me back a few years when we were still using Sextants for Polar travel -  
 
The nice thing is the gear is not all moved into the office and I can sit in comfort and not freezing my Annulus off.
 
Laurence KL 1 X Palmer Wasilla South Central Alaska

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 23:30:48 +0100
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LF: Transpolar Long carrier test 137.7800 WE2XPQ tonight

Hi Laurence,

I wish you good luck. The best chance may be to appear at DF6NM's µHz spectrogram. I don't expect you to see you in my 22 mhz spectrogram so i will have an eye on Markus' results and will be on air for myselfe this night again, BACON to the west, in DFCW-90 on 136.172 kHz, as usual ;-) Or do you want me to watch out for you as well?

73, Stefan/DK7FC

Am 04.12.2012 20:52, schrieb Laurence KL1 X:

WE2XPQ will be conducting a continuous carrier test overnight on 137.7800 kHz from around 0100Z till around 1600Z Tonight (thats in a few hours time).
 
Conditions over the Polar regions are getting better but less than fair at the moment but worth investigating. A no show is still a result :-)
 
Transmitter will be the GPS/10MHz disciplined HP3336B via 4046 squarer and 4426 driver to the Decca 5501 Amp at around 600W into a Fir tree 140m loop - ERP is likely to be less than 0.5W in the main lobe 040/220deg T
 
The loop will be modified this coming week if the weather breaks but its been blowing 40Kts gust and -25C so still nippy on the face and fingers to do long term outside work. We are also in a "Red Flag" warning area so have to be careful with sparks and flames..
 
 
 
Laurence KL 1 X Wasilla Alaska