[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC and the new bandplan

[Dave Sergeant]

Bear in mind that there was a possibility of Auroral contacts last 
night. Not sure if many 6m DXers go into Aurora, or whether there was 
any. Despite what the media were trying to say yesterday, it seems most 
the UK was only in the light blue area of the auroral circle (see 
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html) and the K index never got 
above 5 (we really need a K of 9 to get good visible aurora in Southern 
England). There may have been some auroral propagation but talk of 
visible aurora was wishful thinking down here (even if the cloud wasn't 
there).

73 Dave G3YMC

On 25 Jan 2012 at 11:21, Robert Chipperfield wrote:

> Whilst the new band plan does list .100-.200 as "international 
> /preferred/", in the situation where there was little chance of such
> propagation, a very empty segment of the band from .150-.200, and a very
> full segment from .200-.300, it seems to make sense to me that activity
> be allowed to descend below the .200 boundary.
> 


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