Thursday 28 March 2019

Barbados rocks to the geomagnetic beat

Things have been very strange at 14MHz overnight recently.  Despite plenty of variation in the field conditions, the unusual tendency has been to lose all DX signals from about 23:00UT until the pre-dawn period.  Not even in the depths of solar minimum winter was this seen.

Last night saw some moderate disruption of the field to Kp=3:

Image: Tromso Geophysical Observatory.

The 5W, 14MHz WSPR signal from 8P9DH showed quite wild fluctuations as the field underwent its disturbance, although at this time of year, the greyline conditions are firmly superimposed on the propagation as well:

Other than WSPR, and the fact my WSPRlite transmitted has failed (the second in about two years to have done so), not very much is happening at the station at present.


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