Sunday, 23 December 2018

A burst from Papa Alpha

After a nice family gathering yesterday afternoon, I decided to try some more WSPR listening with the RSP1a SDR, seeing as there was no apparent contest activity on 14MHz (yet!)

It was geomagnetically quiet, but a spectacular burst of strong signals came from the Netherlands station, PA3BTI (100mW) mid-evening, which seemed to coincide with the geomagnetic field restoring to full-quiet conditions from a small disturbance at very high latitudes; by the time we reach the Andenes station (69 degrees North), the disturbance is not really detectable.


Norwegian line magnetometer outputs.  Image: Tromso Geophysical Laboratory.
Wow!  +14dB SNR/2500Hz from PA3BTI (14MHz)

A similar, but broader enhancement was seen from F1AGR:


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