Northern Lights are bright in Twin Cities, MN
 

We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very bright
to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise pretty
quiet where I am at...

Jackie

"Buzzygirl" wrote in message
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| We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
| just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very
bright
| to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
| Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise
pretty
| quiet where I am at...
|
| Jackie

Got 'em here in Burnsville (South Twin Cities Metro area).

Try FM, Jackie - I have been hearing CITI-FM from Winnipeg
on 92.1 (You'll need a yagi, though; KQ-92 is mighty close).

73,

Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota


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Buzzygirl wrote:

We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very bright
to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise pretty
quiet where I am at...

Jackie

Good show in northeast US too.


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"Buzzygirl" wrote:

We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very bright
to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise pretty
quiet where I am at...

About half the stations such as Radio Moscow sound like they are under
water. A lot of stations with fluctuating signal levels tonight.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

I'm glad I read this post, because I suspected something was going on that was
affecting DX this evening. I was having trouble even getting WWV on any
frequency! My shack is in the midwest also, located in the suburbs of Chicago.
I think I'll just shut down the receivers, and poke my head outside, to see if
I can catch "The Lights". Good DXing to you, Gary

We had them in Central Oregon this evening as well. Just caught the tail end
at about 0500 Z. Had some auroral propagation on 144 mhz cw as well, and of
course the FM broadcast stations were coming in from all over the place. It
is supposed to stay like this for a couple of days. Check out:
--
Dave,
Icom 746pro, Drake R-8, Grundig YB-400pe
Icom V-8000, Yaesu VX5R, Uniden
780xlt, R.S. Pro 95, R.S. Pro 2066
G.E. SR3

www.spaceweather.com if you want more information.




"Buzzygirl" wrote in message
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We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very
bright
to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise
pretty
quiet where I am at...

Jackie







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"Buzzygirl" wrote in message
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| We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution...
I'm
| just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very
bright
| to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
| Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise
pretty
| quiet where I am at...
|
| Jackie

Got 'em here in Burnsville (South Twin Cities Metro area).

Try FM, Jackie - I have been hearing CITI-FM from Winnipeg
on 92.1 (You'll need a yagi, though; KQ-92 is mighty close).

73,

Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Was up near Mora last night, they were awsome!

"MnMikew" wrote in message
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| "Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
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| "Buzzygirl" wrote in message
| news:mQzjd.6475$V41.3812@attbi_s52...
| | We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution...
| I'm
| | just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very
| bright
| | to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
| | Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise
| pretty
| | quiet where I am at...
| |
| | Jackie
|
| Got 'em here in Burnsville (South Twin Cities Metro area).
|
| Try FM, Jackie - I have been hearing CITI-FM from Winnipeg
| on 92.1 (You'll need a yagi, though; KQ-92 is mighty close).
|
| 73,
|
| Steve Lawrence
| Burnsville, Minnesota
|
| Was up near Mora last night, they were awsome!

Lucky son of a gun.

I have a friend who was deer hunting near Biwabik, and he says
the same. They were visible in the Twin Cities, but not spectacular.
I'll keep watching tonight, just the same. The FM band has quieted
down just a bit, as well - HF is dead as a doornail. I can hear KYCR-1570
from Golden Valley just fine, as there is no competition on the same
channel.

73,

Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, MN


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I grew up in St. Paul in the 60's (now a resident of Texas), but I seem to
recall one time around then that we could see the lights. Sure doesn't
happen very often.

MJC

"Buzzygirl" wrote in message
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We usually don't see them here with all the ungodly light pollution... I'm
just north of downtown St. Paul, MN and the aurora borealis are very
bright
to the north, east, west and overhead. Sheets of green and even red.
Haunting and beautiful! The lower SW bands are "hissy" and otherwise
pretty
quiet where I am at...

Jackie