In article , 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.

http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=H...ATH-COLOR=&PAT
H-UNITS=mi&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=&MA
P-STYLE=azeqi

And here is a look at the auroral area:

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


That's a nifty map!

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Telamon
Ventura, California