Thanks Alan - yep could be leakage but this morning I see the low/high Proton levels were way up just for a short while and now back down to flat line too - though I see whe are going to get a little Coronal for a while.
This isnt just on LF MF but even HF is a little depressed - so maybe a little kick of the present mid lat K3 will help. Odd stuff this... DCF39 is something like >50dBr or more down on where it was this time last year (on a good day)
Even the Path to Texas wasnt good last night at MF. Cheers from a snowy hilled Alaska
Laurence KL 7 L
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Subject: Re: LF: Over the Pole and far far away
Hi Laurence, thaksor your observations. It does not
seem to absorpyion by precipitated electrons. However the solar X-ray flux has
been very quiet for some time now(which is a bit odd) I wonder if we are
suffering ionospheric leakage at least on your path. That is where not all
th signal is refracted but a considerble portion goes right through the E layer
out into space??
If that is the case what we might need is a minor
geeomag storm to beef up the electron density again.
Alan G3NYK
