RE: [amsat-bb] any solar storm updates

["MarkG" <markg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony,
   Yeah, I know the feeling. The past several aurora probably rocked over
asia but by the time they got here, there was nothing left. On the plus
side, "almost aurora" usually tends to mean good E skip the next day. Some
will debate the correlation but if there is none between the two, the
coincidence is uncanny. After the big aurora in april I worked VP6. Today's
wasn't as spectacular but W6's were loud so I'd wager I was putting a good
signal into some water grid in the pacific ocean someplace.  :-)

   I heard W7's were working (or maybe just hearing) VK's today on 6m.
Nothing out here however. One of these days/months/years/lifetimes.

73...Mark - KB3CWS


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From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
Behalf Of Tony Langdon
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 7:27 PM
To: 'MarkG'; Tony Langdon; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] any solar storm updates


> Tony,
>    Be careful how you interpret ACE data on spaceweather.com
> because ACE is
> currently unreliable with it's readings. I hadn't seen any
> visible aurora
> last night but that may have been simply because I was in the
> shack pounding
> out new contacts on 2m, averaging one every 6 minutes for 4
> hours. It was
> nuts. At it's peak, my beam was pointed almost due west and I'm at 40
> degrees latitude. About the time the aurora died down, our
> friend N1JEZ
> showed up on 6m SSB literally pegging the meter...what a treat!
>
> Us VHFers suffer 360 days out of the year, I feel little pity for HF
> operators right now.  ;-)

Well, things had subsided by the time our evening came along.  No visible
auroras or signs of auroral propagation were heard.



And reports coming in suggested the storm was abating by then.  We rode out
the peak of during our daylight hours. :-(
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