BF-362 Seattle |
As it turned out, summer lightning noise was the least of CLE 235's problems!
The weekend event saw its all too often 'solar hit' shortly after the start of the event, with Friday evening being the only night (in North America anyway) that had propagation. Saturday and Sunday nights were almost complete blackouts, with just one catch recorded on each night.
With the K-index soring to at least 7, there was really not much to be heard after Friday night save for a very robust appearance from RG-352 at the Rarotonga International Airport, just before dawn on Sunday morning. Thanks to Dan, VE7DES, listening from the club station at UBC, for the tip!Disturbed conditions often seem to enhance the Pacific path but other than Hawaii, this was the only other signal heard from the west. Sunday morning found DPY-365 in Washington state. Up until that time, its signal had been completely missing-in-action ... but it was loud at 0100 local. Perhaps it had been down for maintenance and not on the air until Sunday.
courtesy: NOAA |
My log consisted of 30 stations, with all but two from Friday night before the storm. As usual, the receiver was a Perseus SDR and an 'Inverted-L', resonated at 300 kHz.
25 07:00 350 VTR McGrath, ALS
25 12:00 350 SWU Idaho Falls, ID, USA25 08:00 350 RG Oklahoma City, OK, USA
25 07:00 350 NY Enderby, BC, CAN
25 07:00 351 YKQ Waskaganish, QC, CAN
26 12:00 352 RG Rarotonga IAP, CKS
25 07:00 353 ZXY Whitehorse, YT, CAN
25 08:00 353 PG Portage La Prairie, MB, CAN
25 13:00 353 LLD Lanai Island, HWA
25 07:00 353 AL Dixie, WA, USA
25 12:00 355 AUB King Salmon, ALS
25 12:00 356 ZXE Saskatoon, SK, CAN
25 08:00 356 ZF Yellowknife, NT, CAN
25 08:00 356 PND Portland, OR, USA
25 08:00 356 ON Penticton, BC, CAN
25 12:00 356 MEF Medford, OR, USA
25 09:00 358 SIT Sitka, ALS
25 09:00 359 YQZ Quesnel, BC, CAN
25 09:00 359 YAZ Tofino, BC, CAN
25 07:00 361 HI Holman, NT, CAN
25 07:00 361 E3 Wabasca, AB, CAN
25 07:00 362 YZS Coral Harbour, NU, CAN
25 07:00 362 RPX Roundup, MT, USA
25 07:00 362 BF Seattle, WA, USA
25 08:00 362 6T Foremost, AB, CAN
25 07:00 365 YGZ Grise Fiord, NU, CAN
25 12:00 365 MA Mayo, YT, CAN
27 08:00 365 DPY Deer Park, WA, USA
25 07:00 365 AA Harwood, MN, USA
25 12:00 368 ZP Sandspit, BC, CAN
25 12:00 368 VX Dafoe, SK, CAN
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