Hi Mike it is interesting to see that your "Good Conditions" were just
before a bout of geomagnetic activity :-)) The Dst was nothing special last
night (-40nT) but it plunged to -80nT around noon today. All the contacts
you quote are around the 2000km max range so are one hop and the
precipitated hot electrons did not appear until daylight, but it is possible
these initially aided the Italian copy and your 2000km daylight paths. These
will probably disappear later in the day.
At longer range Roelof reports good signals from Joe VO1NA up to two hours
after ground sunrise. This is a 2-hop path. This could have been due to
precipitared electrons "filling" the morning dip on the 2nd hop but it was a
little early for that. There is also my belief that solar wind electrons
may aid E-layer ionisation so mild activity may lead to better night-time
conditions. My suspicion is that the paths will not be quite so good
tonight....we shall see. The geomagnetic activity does not seem too intense
so will probably soon decay, and we will be back to "normal" again.
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Dennison" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:53 PM
Subject: LF: Good 136kHz conditions
Good conditions and activity last night on the 136kHz band. My Op32
transmission at midnight UTC last night produced reports from nine
countries, including LA, SM, EW6, SV, SP and EA. I also received Op32
from Russia and Italy.
This morning, my transmission at 1035UTC was reported by three
stations around the 2000km mark. IS7SLZ is also readable.
A good time to dust off the LF gear.
Mike, G3XDV
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