Thanks for that Steve
My Encarta World Atlas shows very accurately the path for any two points.
The nearest the path from Holland to DG passes just South of the Arctic circle at Iceland and the nearest it gets is 65.30 North.
The Arctic Circle starts at 66.30 North.

But your excellent sec.noaa map clearly shows the path well in the heart of the auroral belt, so you will get polar flutter as you wrote.
Thanks for informing me about that

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"dxAce" wrote in message ...

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