{"id":746,"date":"2014-03-04T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:19:37","slug":"aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Aurora!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d have thought, 11 (or even 22) years ago, that aurora would be so rare this time around? There have been hardly any openings this far south, but we&#8217;ve had a couple in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>On February 23rd, I worked Clive, GM4VVX in IO78ta at 17:38z. For some reason Clive was hearing me a lot better than I could hear him &#8211; I do have a lot of band noise the nearer north I beam, but it still seemed non-reciprocal?<\/p>\n<p>On February 27th we had a slightly better opening. I worked a couple of Gs and GMs, but best dx was to <strong>SM4IVE (JO79sd\/1682km)<\/strong> and <strong>SM7GVF (JO77ga\/1565km)<\/strong> &#8211; all QSOs at a heading of 035 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The signals from SM7GVF were quite strong at times:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flagallery jq-mplayer_skin\" > <div id=\"flag_musicplayer_r3663369623\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery(function(){ var settings = {\"maxwidth\":\"0\",\"autoplay\":\"0\",\"loop\":\"1\",\"buttonText\":\"Download\",\"downloadTrack\":\"0\",\"tracksToShow\":\"5\",\"moreText\":\"View More...\",\"key\":\"\",\"name\":\"\"}; var content = [{\"id\":748,\"mp3\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ei3kd.73tu.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/sm7gvf-cq-Aurora-2m-270214.mp3\",\"cover\":\"\",\"title\":\"sm7gvf 2m aurora 270214\",\"text\":\"<p>\\\"sm7gvf 2m aurora 270214\\\" from Aurora by ei3kd. Released: 2014.<\\\/p>\",\"button\":\"\"}]; jQuery('#flag_musicplayer_r3663369623').data('uid', 'r3663369623').flagMusicPlayer(content, settings); }); <\/script> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p>SM4IVE was weaker but still peaking around 54a. I haven&#8217;t found him on my recording yet (it may have been off at the time) &#8211; if I do I&#8217;ll add it to the playlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d have thought, 11 (or even 22) years ago, that aurora would be so rare this time around? There have been hardly any openings this far south, but we&#8217;ve had a couple in recent times. On February 23rd, I worked Clive, GM4VVX in IO78ta at 17:38z. For some reason Clive was hearing me a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-144mhz","category-aurora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei3kd.73tu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}