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Some weeks you listen for the propagation and then you think
maybe I’ll buy a caravan and go and live at the bottom of the Welsh
valleys with no mains and no antennas (but excellent Welsh beers) reception
could not get worse!
So what happened to 3B7C? Over 80 contacts on 10m
on Monday, nowhere the rest of the week. And really some of the stations
below were 1 contact only. 5U5U (Niger) was popular on Sunday along with
T30XX (Kiribati), NX5M, several JYs and BGs and a ZK, J69AZ (St Lucia)
and HC8N (Galapagos Island). So there is DX out there but spread thinly.
Most popular DX
Monday: 3B7C, C56YK, 3D2WW, BG7NWF, PY2TNT, IW0HBY,
BG7NWT, AJ4F, IT9NTD, I5IHE, F4EZJ, 6K5AQY, VK4IM.
Tuesday: W5DFW/R, S79CQ, PD9HVS, N4ECE, KC9MBY, BU2AQ,
9W2DRL, W5DHG, PD2AFO, KS8O, K7JE, HA5BGL.
Wednesday: N6ELK, M0VKC, IZ2DPX, IZ0FAF, BG7MSN, M0CCQ,
KQ4PK, IZ0GKN, BL7IA.
Thursday: TM2RWC, F4EZJ, PY2VA, VK4FRAJ, V73TEN/B, VK8VF/B,
BG7NWF, EA7TN, F4DVX, PY2CX, PY2SRB.
Friday: HC8N, IW0HBY, CN8SG, YO2NAA, YITB253, VK8VF/B,
KQ4PK, WP3UX, K0RC, IZ0FKE, BG7NWF, ZS1Y, ZP4KFX.
Saturday: NX5M, CX2CC, HK3JJH, 5U5U, G1SSL, VK4CQ, VK4LS,
JA4GXX, K4BDR, KQ6PK, KU5B, PY5HOT, VK4IM, WX3B.
Sunday: 5U5U, T30XX, NX5M, ZK2AH, BG7IEU, F4EZJ, JE1LET,
LU1DYO, VK4FEAT, BG7NWF, EW4BYC, J69AZ, ZS6DXB, 7J1YAD, AC5O, DO9OAM,
EU4AG, EY8MM, IZ8GGF, JA4GXX, JG2TKH, JG3MBL, N5NMX, PU1CCC, PU2KSQ, VK4IM.
Contests: OCEANIA DX Contest Phone from 08:00 Saturday
to 08:00 Sunday and the RSGB 21/28 MHz contest from 07:00 to 19:00 on
Sunday. Next Wednesday 10th is the 10-10 International Sprint from 00:00
to 24:00. Hope for improving conditions.
Sun: Quiet again, sunspot 971 is almost not there. On
Sept. 29th, an extraordinary fireball streaked over Finland. It was so
bright, video cameras recorded its glow without even pointing in the direction
of the meteor. Local astronomers believe the fireball was a random space
rock (not part of any known meteoroid stream) massing some 200 kg.
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Image credit:
Spaceweather.com |
Last night, for no apparent reason, the sky over Baffin Island, Canada,
erupted in green.
Researchers call this kind of outburst an "auroral substorm."
First recognized in the early 1960s by a young Japanese physicist named
Shun-ichi Akasofu, auroral substorms have been studied
for almost 50 years, yet to this day they are neither predictable nor
fully understood.
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