I think "closed" is a difficult term - weve not had any "good" meaning outstanding conditions to anywhere this MF/LF season, comparable to that week when you came in daily last year  - so far and certainly nothing to the US Eastern coast and over the Pole - even to Japan has been daily variable - got that lead shield just North of the Canadian border...but Im looking with all my might :-) 
 
Even the friendly local low power NDB on 510kHz up in Fairbanks has been missing - not sure why just daily topping up with Solar gusty stuff and near nightly weakish/medium Green Aurora to the North. Still the Dst isnt too bad - I think everything just has to line up right to make the path work and we havent been there yet. The sun just needs to shut down for a while by a % or two
 
Name that mode and Ill take a look aor and Ill fire up - I am one rx down at the moment but can look at 500/137 simultaneously - omni or directional - the tuning unit has 0.4m of snow on it and is currently sitting out of the sun around -30C .

 

 

 Still it is pretty  out of the shack window http://kl7uk.com/WE2.jpg

 

Laurence KL 1 X

Wasilla Palmer Alaska
 
 
 
 
 

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:02:07 +0100
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LF: JT9-10 @ 474 +1400

Laurence,

There was some solar activity again, since a long time. K=4, DST~ -35 nT. I guess the polar path is closed for the next few days due to that event?
Pse cfm.

73, Stefan/DK7FC

Am 17.12.2012 23:15, schrieb Laurence KL1 X:

Steinar I was getting some reasonable syncs but appeared not stable enough - so that confirms it :-)
 
Laurence KL 1 X