Saturday 23 November 2019

Overnight disturbances

The geomagnetic field underwent some moderate disturbance to around G1 levels overnight.  As is usual, some interesting effects on 14MHz WSPR took place.

First, the reception reports of my 1W by the excellent WSPR station, OE9GHV - the only station outside the UK to hear my signal through the night, showing a big, but brief increase of about 15dB in signal strength between ~20:10 and 21:25UT:

If we look at the Kiruna magnetogram, we can see the signal increase aligns nicely with the main disturbance for the evening.  The horizontal component most clearly shows the signal increases - as we always find - as the field begins to restore to quieter conditions:





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