Very interesting! Yes, it was like that here too, which suggests that
there was aurora activity. I don't have a beam, and had the 50 MHz
radio turned off during CQWW, so I don't know if there was aurora on
VHF. But yes, the nearly all signals from north of roughly 50 degrees
north latitude (especially zones 16, 17, 18, and 19) had the most
pronounced aurora sound. As I recall, this condition was limited to 20
meters (or as least most pronounced on 20).
Jim K9YC
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:11:02 +0000, SP5UAF wrote:
>Hello Jim,
>
>It's interesting to hear about the propagation conditions from your
>side.
>I operated on 20 meters - Low Power in CQ WW CW.
>Here in Poland the last hours of the contest were like on 6 meters or
>2 meters during strong aurora activity. All signals had auroral
>sounds. And the band behaviour was like during aurora. I must say that
>during the last hours of the contest my antenna was turned all the
>time to 360 - 370 degrees and I could work stations from the South
>America, Central America, North America, Europe (Western, Central and
>Eastern) and Asia. And it was possible with 100 Watts only.
>
>73
>Tom
>SP5UAF
>
>JB> I observed some very interesting behavior on 20 m Sunday morning
>JB> (Chicago time). I use only dipoles and a vertical here. For several
>JB> hours around 1500Z, I was hearing many northern European stations on
>JB> both short path and long path at nearly the same level. The delay
>JB> between the two arrivals was such that it made the signals virtually
>JB> impossible to copy, and I avoided 20 until the condition cleared. I
>JB> could switch to one of the dipoles that put a null to the long path and
>JB> copy them, and the typical sound of the longer path made it easy to
>JB> tell what I was listening to, but the antenna didn't work well enough
>JB> to use it for transmitting.
>
>JB> Did anyone else observe this?
>
>JB> Jim K9YC
>
>
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