Wednesday 3 February 2021

Kp4 brings spots!

 

Aurora, seen from southern Iceland, 2011 (C) MW1CFN.

Minor geomagnetic field 'ringing' overnight, with much more disturbed conditions in the preceding 24 hours, brought 14MHz WSPR RX signals from Argentina and the Caribbean back to life in no uncertain terms.  Ordinarily, under quiet conditions, the band would have been absent of spots until twilight here:

LU1EGT=5W, LU1KCQ=1W, 9Z4FV=20W, at 14MHz WSPR 02-03/02/2021

On the transmit side, the field disturbance nicely killed my 1W signal to TF4X, lying underneath the auroral oval ring,although by 01:50UT, the rebounding field was bringing back to life quite strongly:

Received signal of 1W from MW1CFN by TF4X (14MHz)


In the case of EA8BFK receiving me, signal strength increased from before 01UT, and remained strong until dawn:

EA8BFK receiving MW1CFN (1W, 14MHz)

East Greenland magnetometry.


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