Diego Garcia on 13254 usb heard here at a level that I have not witnessed since
October of 2001.

Crystal clear, no polar flutter. Giving a weather report at 1630.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

When do you typically monitor for DG? I need to be on this in the next few
days as I am off during the day, Thanks!

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Diego Garcia on 13254 usb heard here at a level that I have not witnessed
since
October of 2001.

Crystal clear, no polar flutter. Giving a weather report at 1630.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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??
--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s.
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
Hallicrafters SX-100, Eddystone 940
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop

"Jim Douglas" wrote in message
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When do you typically monitor for DG? I need to be on this in the next few
days as I am off during the day, Thanks!

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Diego Garcia on 13254 usb heard here at a level that I have not
witnessed
since
October of 2001.

Crystal clear, no polar flutter. Giving a weather report at 1630.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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...AP-STYLE=azeqi

And here is a look at the auroral area:

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

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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

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

--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s.
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
Hallicrafters SX-100, Eddystone 940
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop
"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

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!

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Jim Douglas wrote:

When do you typically monitor for DG? I need to be on this in the next few
days as I am off during the day, Thanks!

I can usually hear them from at least 1300 UTC, and at times before then
depending on whether propagation is with me. 1300 is currently 0800 local time
here. At many times hear them to at least 1700+ UTC here.

They come in the best here on my 70' wire which runs N-S.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

dxAce wrote:

Jim Douglas wrote:

When do you typically monitor for DG? I need to be on this in the next few
days as I am off during the day, Thanks!

I can usually hear them from at least 1300 UTC, and at times before then
depending on whether propagation is with me. 1300 is currently 0800 local time
here. At many times hear them to at least 1700+ UTC here.

They come in the best here on my 70' wire which runs N-S.

I just heard DG here at 2215 UTC.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm