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Did I miss the aurora conditions?

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pianoplayer88key

I took a few minutes to tune in on my PL-606 this evening here in San Diego county, and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Stations north of me I'm still hearing include:

560 KSFO San Francisco, CA
580 KMJ Fresno, CA
680 KNBR San Francisco, CA
700 KALL North Salt Lake City, UT
720 KDWN Las Vegas, NV
740 KCBS San Francisco, CA
780 KKOH Reno, NV
810 KGO San Francisco, CA
840 KXNT North Las Vegas, NV
850 KOA Denver, CO
890 KDXU St. George, UT
940 KFIG Fresno, CA
1000 KOMO Seattle, WA (weak under KCEO Vista, CA but that's normal)
1100 KWWN Las Vegas, NV (also possible KFAX San Francisco, CA way under)
1160 KSL Salt Lake City, UT (in a fade right now but was strong earlier this evening)
1180 KERN Wasco-Greenacres, CA
1200 KYAA Soquel, CA
1500 KSJX San Jose, CA (something else mixing, possibly KSTP St Paul, MN, which has been heard here before)
1530 KFBK Sacramento, CA
1560 KNZR Bakersfield, CA
1620 KSMH West Sacramento, CA
1640 KDIA Vallejo, CA
1660 KTIQ Merced, CA
1680 KGED Fresno, CA
1690 KFSG Roseville, CA

I thought during an aurora I should be hearing NONE of those stations? None are usually heard in the daytime, they're all north of me (well not all due north, some northeast and some northwest) and I thought aurora wiped out signals from the north. What's going on? Did I miss it? I wasn't able to tune in the last couple nights cause I had other things going on.
 
The auroral radio blackout zone generally doesn't go much farther south than the the California line, at least from my experience.

I missed the conditions over the past week or so... just haven't switched on the radio lately.
 
No blackouts here in south central Texas, either. I'm disappointed that aurora conditions and winter daytime skywave don't get this far south. However, I console myself with the fact that there's more FM tropo down here. :D
 
Still sounds pretty auroral to me, day 6 or 7 now, in East Tennessee

jim-satx said:
No blackouts here in south central Texas, either. I'm disappointed that aurora conditions and winter daytime skywave don't get this far south. However, I console myself with the fact that there's more FM tropo down here. :D
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Most frequencies are dominated or affected by signals from the south.
1660: Right now I'm getting WCNZ likes it's local (at 838 miles) and WBCN at 242 miles and WWRU at 290 miles are silent.
Normally WWRU is the strongest night station. I'm in VA.
Almost every frequency below 900 khz is Cuban. 750 WSB is loud, but it's from the south of me.
 
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