Last night around 9:00pm (west coast time) I hooked up with a couple stations from Whitehorse in the Yukon and then a couple stations from Alaska. While this is nothing rare or unusual it's what follows is.
I was noticing some AM hetrodyne on 38lsb, so I swing my beam around in different directions and what I found was; down on ch 3 & 4 was lots of traffic coming in from Japan. While one may ask; why is that so unusual?
Well, it's very rare to hear any stations from along the Asia coast at this time of year and with the bottom of the cycle at it's low point, then that makes it more rare. Also, this was late at night, which even when the cycle was at it's peak, I would never hear any stations from Japan any later than 5:00 pm and never after the month of FEB!
I have an idea that these conditions may have been caused from the Aurora, which I should of checked the Aurora Plot to see if this could of been the cause.
So is this a prelude to whats to come, like what the scienist have been saying, that the intensity of next cycle will be the stongest ever know?
Guess in a few more years we shall know.
I was noticing some AM hetrodyne on 38lsb, so I swing my beam around in different directions and what I found was; down on ch 3 & 4 was lots of traffic coming in from Japan. While one may ask; why is that so unusual?
Well, it's very rare to hear any stations from along the Asia coast at this time of year and with the bottom of the cycle at it's low point, then that makes it more rare. Also, this was late at night, which even when the cycle was at it's peak, I would never hear any stations from Japan any later than 5:00 pm and never after the month of FEB!
I have an idea that these conditions may have been caused from the Aurora, which I should of checked the Aurora Plot to see if this could of been the cause.
So is this a prelude to whats to come, like what the scienist have been saying, that the intensity of next cycle will be the stongest ever know?
Guess in a few more years we shall know.
