dxAce wrote:

John Plimmer wrote:

dxAce posts in UTC time like all world DXer's
He reported 1630 UTC as the time.

I don't know why dxAce would get "polar flutter" on Diego Garcia as the path
from Michigan to DG lies South of the Arctic Circle and the auroral belt??

That is indeed true John, but a the short path to DG from here indeed passes
near the polar region.

And I mispoke as the short path indeed passes through the Arctic circle.



http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=H...AP-STYLE=azeqi

And here is a look at the auroral area:

http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

dxAce
Michigan
USA