Topband: Conditions Last Night

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Roger Parsons wrote:

>The experience up here last night was quite different.
>I called the 5T5 for a long time with no results.
>One day things will get better...
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>Roger,  I got 5T5SN with 599 both ways on the first call in a pile up.  However, I called and called T77C, a needed one for 160 meters, for about two hours and no cigar.  Previously I had worked UU4JMG, again first call and 599 both ways.  As far as the T77C attempt I could have been using my dummy load as far as I know!
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> Last night there were significant path anomilies as reported by SP5EWY with flutter and southerly skewed paths to NA.  In the morning at local sunrise I worked a half dozen JA's effortlessly.  Some of the signals were 579 solid.  The interesting thing was that only the South and the Southwest beverages could copy JA's here.  In short, I took my cue from SP5EWY reporting the auroral skew as an indication that the JA path might be working at dawn.  (I had been trying for JA's for about a month without any success.)Just remember when the aurora takes in some directions it also may cause signal enhancement in others.  My question for the propagation gurus is : Does the significate aurora activity bend, deflect, or
>refract signals as well as absorb them.
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Just remember when the aurora takes in some directions it also may cause 
signal enhancement in others.  My question for the propagation gurus is 
: Does the significate aurora activity bend, deflect, or refract signals 
as well as absorb them.

Still would like to get the T77 though.

73

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ


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