That intensity might be produced by a super-nova in the near vicinity. Unfortunately, when the last such supernova occurred, in 1147, there were no DX'ers around to see what affect it would have. You'd probably need one of those ULR's anyway. Those who know say such a supernova in the vicinity would fry every electrical grid in the world anyway, so there might be nobody to listen to anyway. What does the Dautry song say; "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it?"
73's David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saul Chernos Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:26 AM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: Re: [IRCA] What the AM BCB hobby needs Those are bloody high indices, and I've no idea what that intensity would do, if even possible. But everyone seems to complain when the indices climb, and my experience is there's often DX gems to be had when it does - at least within the realms of where I've seen in climb. I've hopped over huge "doughnut holes" to land stations 800-1600 miles away and father, Latin Americans on US regional channels such as 1300, a 500-watt North Dakotan on 1600 I've only seen once. You need a qwuiet location because of the noise on the band. Maybe the indices Willis mentions would create such noise that they'd radiate your teeth, but you need only look to FM for the fun that can be had when the indices shoot up and an aurora is visible in the sky. I have had wonderful auroral DX from Burnt River Ontario (about 70 air miles north of Toronto) out to close to 1000 miles, from Nova Scotia to Nebraska to North Carolina and (yes, Willis, Tennessee). And you think the AM band gets noisy? FM is very badly muffled, but there are peaks and valleys and station volumes can get so strong that they sometimes pierce therough the noise with an IDable signal. Back to AM. It will probably take a super-duper auroral for me to land Down Under from Burnt River, or Brazil and Argentina, for that matter. I know that Cappahayden Newfoundland DXpedition crew once had tons to Africa and very little to Europe one DXpedition when the indices were fairly high. I recall it being reported as highly ununsual and much appreciated. I don't know how high I want to max out at, but - yes - push those indices! The above is based solely on my experiences DXing. It would be great if someone truly knowledgeable about aurorae would speak up. I wonder if many of you are located in areas where AM DX does tend to get hammered and nothing else. Saul Chernos > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bjarne Mjelde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:40 AM > Subject: [AMFMTVDX] Re: What the AM BCB hobby needs (k4ape) > > >> Why would that benefit the AM BCB hobby? Surely it would wipe out >> everything at my end. >> >> Bjarne >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: >> >>> I was setting here thinking about what this hobby could use, and came up >>> with the following..... >>> >>> A super blast of particles from the sun, to create an Aurora that can >>> seen in the day light in Tennessee. With an A index of 254 and K index >>> of 75. >>> >>> Wouldn't that be fun!!! :)))) >>> >>> 73's >>> >>> Willis >>> Old Fort, TN >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> AMFMTVDX mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amfmtvdx >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html >> Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMFMTVDX mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amfmtvdx > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com