Strong Geomagnetic Storm Enlivens The Magic Band

[ARRL]

That strong geomagnetic storm over the weekend may have trashed the HF bands, but stations along North America’s Eastern Seaboard took advantage of the resulting aurora to score some DX on 6 meters. On Saturday, June 29, stations were able to work into Alaska during a period of auroral propagation. WK3N in Pennsylvania reported working his first two Alaska stations, AL7RT and KL7NO, for his #10...





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[BJ radionut]

Yes it was open Sunday!
Portugal (CT1)
Aruba (2 stations) (P43)
Bonaire (PJ4)
Curacao (PJ2)
Cuba (CO2)
Dutch West Indies (PJ5)

Plus a few more

Get this: My FT-950/100 watts...HB 3 element at 45ft (2.+/1 SWR)
Damn bird flew into my Gamma Match and twisted it!
I got off 75m (band really SUCKED) and got to 6 just as it was closing to Europe around 14:00z... Signals when in the clear were huge!
Heard Belize (V31) on CW but could not break the pile-up:sad:

Heard several others pointed into Euro Land around 16:00z just nothing I could work!

Had a BLAST....
Can't wait to get my NEW/5 element LFA Yagi on the tower!:w00t:
All the Best
Gary

PS: 2 meters FM was open also...was hearing simplex stations 2-300 miles away on my Diamond Antenna 3 x (5/8's wave stacked) at 18ft...it's going up to 50ft as soon as the 5 element LFA (17ft+boom) for 6m is ready!

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

:headbang Still waiting to get some decent weather that coincides with my days off to get the antennas up. This year has been a real bitch, cold and wet or windy as hell if it is dry.