W1MPY and KB1NFS battle the aurora borealis...

[W1AEX]

The heavy warbling effects of Aurora Borealis were very evident last night (4-23-2012) on 75 meters as Bill - W1MPY and Clark - KB1NFS battled the flutter. The solar indices as reported by NOAA at the time were:

SF.....142
A.......23
K.........2
SSN..118

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-y1IOXxM5g

[Pete, WA2CWA]

[K3YA]

It was a wild sounding evening on 75 yesterday.  I was listening in when you made the recording, Rob, and the aurora flutter was only slightly less severe down in the Washington DC area.   I remember this as a common occurrence on 75M in past sunspot cycle peaks, but haven't heard it like that in quite a while.

On an unrelated topic, how can Clark use so many words to say so little in the recording?

[Pete, WA2CWA]

The aurora should be around tonight also. Stations in Europe are working the aurora now on 6 meters, and as you can see from my previous post above, the higher intensity aurora should be over North America in a few hours.