Aurora

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Aurora is a phenomena which is most prevalent in the regions close to the so called "Aurora Belt". Depending on where you live in the world this belt may be southern Canada or the northern part of the Nordic countries. In these areas Aurora will occur a dozen times a year, even in the quiet periods of the Solar Cycle. If you live more to the south, like in Central Europe, years may pass with little or no Aurora openings.
 Finally, after a very long solar minimum, our neighbouring star has been showing activity since early 2010. Sunspots have been appearing again, but thus far there have been no major Aurora openings. However, we are interested to have infos about ANY Aurora opening occurring in the European area (other parts of the Northen and Southern hemisphere may be added later, depending on Ham and Solar activity). So if you make any Aurora QSOs on 2 metre or 70 cm, please post them into the aurora page using LOGIN, or send as a text file to pa3biy@mmmonvhf.de and pa2dw@mmmonvhf.de. The results of QSOs will be plotted on a map of Europe, and/or posted as lists of worked stations.

In order to produce an intersection map of the position of the Aurora cloud(s), we need reports from both stations who have been involved in a QSO, including an accurate beam heading. Please use LOGIN (please register), and file your list of QSOs by clicking: "Send your report" and follow the guidelines. 
 
Example log entry by PA3BIY:
12:14 PA4EME JO20WX 45
12:17 HA5CRX JN97NM 85

If you are new to VHF DX, you might want to read this small introduction article about Aurora and its relation to the Sun. Other articles related to VHF propagation can be found on the FORUM page.

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16. Apr 2025
Strong Aurora in central Europe.


OK1SC | SM7SPG | UT9UR


OK1SC, Jan - JO70OB
Rig:
2m FT847+300W to 10eY, 6m Low power to 5eY
ODX:
SM6BFE JO68DQ 928km
Log:
16:52 LY2WR KO24FO 30° 2m
16:55 OZ1HDF JO55UN 20 2m
17:22 SM7SPG JO66MD 00 2m
17:29 LY2R KO15VS 25 2m
17:39 DK8MM JO53CL 25 2m
17:45 SM6BFE JO68DQ 35 2m
18:02 SM1ALH JO97II 10 6m
18:06 DK3EE JO41GU 10 6m
18:13 SP2MPO JO94GN 10 6m
18:20 SM7EYW JO65NK 20 2m
Comment:
Aurora was average, the strongest here were OZ1HDF and SM7SPG. On 6m I had ant. fixed at 10° and low power. Relatively few stations were heard. Thank you all for participating, best regards Jan OK1SC
SM7SPG, Per - JO66MD
Rig:
IC-9700, 500W + 12el YU1CF
ODX:
UT9UR, KO50, 1420km
Log:
15:14 G4PIQ 59A 59A JO02 6°
15:19 SP1PEA 55A 59A JO84
15:20 OK1SC 57A 59A JO70 41°
15:22 OK1FPR 59A 59A JO80
15:24 DF2UQ 55A 55A JN49
15:28 OK1PGS 54A 59A JN69
15:30 PA7KY 59A 59A JO32
15:32 DG5CST 59A 59A JO60
15:38 DL4AAL 54A 52A JO31
15:39 OM4CW 59A 59A JN88
15:40 SP2HPD 59A 59A JO94
15:43 OK2PMS 55A 55A JN89
15:47 RA1WU 55A 56A KO47
15:47 PA2CHR 59A 59A JO32
15:49 SM7FCU 57A 59A JO76
15:52 PA1BHM 57A 55A JO21
15:55 PA0JMV 57A 59A JO21
15:57 DL8YE 55A 59A JO32
16:00 UT9UR 57A 59A KO50 54°
16:03 SM0WXW 55A 57A JO89
16:21 SP6CPF 57A 59A JO71 65°
16:27 SM7EYW 59A 59A JO65
16:30 DL0BFA 55A 55A JO62
16:33 DL3LJ 55A 57A JO44 50°
16:38 DL9AO 55A
17:14 DK8MM 59A 57A JO53 41°
17:21 PA3CWN 57A 57A JO33
17:24 OK1TEH 55A 59A JO70 54°
17:28 DF7KF 57A 59A JO30
17:32 PA0O 55A 55A JO33
17:37 DJ8MS 57A 55A JO54
Comment:
Very strange Au with fast QSB and shifting QTF all the time, Nice to work both JO65 (79km) and JO76 on Au.
At start SK4MPI in JP70pi was rcvd with Au-sigs from 225 -0° and 0-110°.
UT9UR, Arkady - KO40XD
Rig:
4x13 H-pol/ K
ODX:
1439km
Log:
14:01 YL2FZ KO37QI 30 819
14:37 OZ1HDF JO55UN 20 1359
14:39 YL2KO KO37RI 345 818
14:42 LY4AA KO14WW 345 672
14:49 LY2WR KO24FO 345 620
14:54 LY2R KO15VR 345 745
14:56 OZ6OL JO55DJ 330 1439
15:47 DK8MM JO53CL 330 1402
16:05 SM7SPG JO66MD 340 1305
16:25 SM7EYW JO65NK 340 1271