“St Patrick’s Day Aurora”, 144MHz

The aurora of 17th March 2015, St Patrick’s Day, was a superb event: It was good enough to propagate signals on 50MHz across the Atlantic, which I found particularly interesting. Unfortunately I haven’t had much time to get anything in the blog about conditions on 144MHz, so here’s an effort to get at least something recorded!

The QSO map for 2m looked like this:

"St Patrick's Day" Aurora, 144MHz

EI3KD (IO51vw) QSO map for 144MHz during aurora on 17th March, 2015

The map shows a wide coverage from fairly well north into Sweden (SK0EN, JO99jx/1884km), all the way down to Croatia (9A1CAL, JN86dm/1867km), with the best distance being to the east, with SP4MPB (KO03HT/1932km) and SP4K (KO03HS/1933km).

Signals were generally quite strong, as demonstrated by a few audio clips:

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End of 9A1CAL QSO, then OK8WW
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SP4MPB
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SP/OK/OE
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SP4K
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Chris, SP4K, was a little weak in QSB during our QSO, but I heard him several times before and after at much better strength. At one point I was listening to SP4MPB working 9A1CAL and could hear both stations! I only started the recording at the end of my QSO with 9A1CAL (i.e. at around 16:50z) but have at least a couple of hours of audio after then, so might add some more clips as I find time – please leave a comment if you have a special request.

Finally, the full 2m log is here, which can be sorted by time, distance, etc, if you have javascript enabled:

"St Patrick's Day Aurora", 144MHz Log

DateUTCCallQTFLockm
17/03/201515:42G4FVP045IO94FM528
17/03/201515:45OK1FPR055JO80CE1709
17/03/201515:46MM0CEZ045IO75XU514
17/03/201515:47OK1TEH055JO70FD1590
17/03/201515:48OK1RK055JO70EA1588
17/03/201515:49OK1DQT055JO70IB1610
17/03/201515:51OZ8ABE040JO55VF1364
17/03/201515:54SM6CEN040JO67AJ1429
17/03/201515:58SK0EN040JO99JX1884
17/03/201516:06F6DKW040JN18CS817
17/03/201516:08G4BAO055JO02CG576
17/03/201516:10PA0JMV055JO21PM929
17/03/201516:16HA1WA055JN87IH1856
17/03/201516:17DK5DQ055JO31QH1076
17/03/201516:19OE5XBL055JN68PC1587
17/03/201516:20DK6NJ055JN59WL1435
17/03/201516:21DD3SP055JO72EN1532
17/03/201516:26ON5PU055JO21LH910
17/03/201516:31HA1YA055JN87GF1849
17/03/201516:32DL8HCO055JO53FU1266
17/03/201516:34DL7PV055JO62NL1449
17/03/201516:35OK1DIX055JO70EB1587
17/03/201516:37DM3XM055JO61CJ1404
17/03/201516:38OK2BDS055JN79WF1718
17/03/201516:39OK2PWY055JN89KW1762
17/03/201516:41SO3Z055JO82LJ1708
17/03/201516:43OK1MGW055JO70WG1683
17/03/201516:44OK1ZHS055JO70EC1586
17/03/201516:46DK4WW055JO62QP1464
17/03/201516:48HA1FV055JN87JJ1858
17/03/201516:509A1CAL055JN86DM1867
17/03/201516:52OK8WW055JN79DV1587
17/03/201516:53SP4MPB055KO03HT1932
17/03/201516:55F5DQK055JN18GR841
17/03/201517:00SP6FXF055JO70SV1643
17/03/201517:02OK2PWR055JN89SE1834
17/03/201517:03OE5KE055JN78EG1654
17/03/201517:05OK2KOS055JN99CT1858
17/03/201517:07OK1SC055JO70OB1644
17/03/201517:09DL3JPN055JO60IS1453
17/03/201517:13OE3FVU055JN78VE1754
17/03/201517:14DF1CF055JN57FP1417
17/03/201517:18DL7UDA055JO62TK1483
17/03/201517:24DJ5QX055JO42FN1134
17/03/201517:42SP4K055KO03HS1933
17/03/201517:57PA5KT055JO11WL833
17/03/201517:59PA2CHR055JO32DB991
17/03/201518:02DL6BF055JO32QI1062
17/03/201518:04OK2VWX055JN89QQ1805
17/03/201518:05ON4KHG055JO10XO858
17/03/201518:07DM4EE055JO64KE1425
17/03/201518:09DL6YBF055JO31OX1054
17/03/201518:11DF1JC055JO31OG1065
17/03/201518:12DL6GCG055JO52MB1314
17/03/201518:14DL1VPL055JO61UA1515
17/03/201518:15G3RGS055JO01HE616
17/03/201518:17DF3RU055JN59UL1424
17/03/201518:19OK1MHZ055JO70VA1685
17/03/201518:20OK1YA055JO70GC1597
17/03/201518:27DJ9MG055JO52TC1353
17/03/201518:28ON4PS055JO20KQ918
17/03/201518:30OK2PM055JN99AO1853
17/03/201518:34DL9NBD055JO50LE1349
17/03/201518:40OE2CAL055JN67NT1589
17/03/201518:43DK5QN055JO42VD1228
17/03/201518:44PA5WT055JO22HG876
17/03/201518:45ON6NL055JO21UE964
17/03/201518:46DH8BQA055JO73CE1515
17/03/201518:48OK1CO055JO80BF1702
17/03/201518:50DG1BHA055JO73CE1515

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