Occasionally, in the DX decade back in Queens NYC , I used to tune in a WWV to hear the A-Index thing they carried. Primitively, I figured that if it was '2', reception to the north was okay and maybe even delirious. If the index was '2000', well, maybe I would hear a few new graveyarders from Florida.
Nowadays in the QRN racket it can turn into an expedition just to hear a WWV itself. So I don't know if they do the A-Index stuff anymore. To me, like fishing, God intended DX to be that way, hi. What comes in, comes in. As if I had a choice anyway.
Ny questions : Does it have to be local nighttime for the Northern Lights to have any effect on reception? Are there any notable reception effects in the day if an unseen Light Show is vamping away? Is some daytime AM skip / mid-Winter Anomaly reception attributed to the Lights?
Does the display, night or day, affect just skywave signals or are there different gradations / levels of consequences?
See, my Dad was a lab technician for 40 years, and explained to me that the various oil refinery distillation columns with the candle flame on top were designed to siphon off sections of rising fumes from burning raw crude oil at the bottom. Each layer of fumes would be turned back into separate liquids for different fuel grades ..... diesel, hi-test gasoline, bicycle lubricant, lo-test gasoline, ink, some cosmetics, etc.
I was just wondering if the more benign Aurora Borealis (or Austrinis) acts in some similar law-of-physics fashion.
Nowadays in the QRN racket it can turn into an expedition just to hear a WWV itself. So I don't know if they do the A-Index stuff anymore. To me, like fishing, God intended DX to be that way, hi. What comes in, comes in. As if I had a choice anyway.
Ny questions : Does it have to be local nighttime for the Northern Lights to have any effect on reception? Are there any notable reception effects in the day if an unseen Light Show is vamping away? Is some daytime AM skip / mid-Winter Anomaly reception attributed to the Lights?
Does the display, night or day, affect just skywave signals or are there different gradations / levels of consequences?
See, my Dad was a lab technician for 40 years, and explained to me that the various oil refinery distillation columns with the candle flame on top were designed to siphon off sections of rising fumes from burning raw crude oil at the bottom. Each layer of fumes would be turned back into separate liquids for different fuel grades ..... diesel, hi-test gasoline, bicycle lubricant, lo-test gasoline, ink, some cosmetics, etc.
I was just wondering if the more benign Aurora Borealis (or Austrinis) acts in some similar law-of-physics fashion.