Wasnt a good night last night over here on 136/475 and visual Au seen pre dawn
as I flew down to Seattle
Laurence KL7L/AM
> On Oct 18, 2015, at 05:56, Alan Melia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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