20-09-2023, 11:26 AM
(15-02-2022, 08:00 PM)OZ2M Wrote: Interesting to read about the use of southern aurora. I thought you guys were living to north to use this type propagation.
I simply love aurora since my early days of amateur radio. OK, things are different here in Europe where thousands of stations can be/were active in a big aurora lasting from the early afternoon to very late at night moving from east to west. I have worked many stations and squares I have never worked on other propagations.
Re the use of digital modes suitable for aurora. PI4 https://rudius.net/oz2m/ngnb/pi4.htm was designed to be a general purpose digital mode for beacon use. It is robust enough to be decoded via aurora, where a signal on 2 m is so heavily distorted, it can easily be 400 Hz wide. Here is a presentation from the RSGB 2018 convention about PI4 and why it is a success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcCncceSN4 it also provides some comments to the general issues of path irregularities.
Did you know that FT4 is more sensitive than FT8?
Bo
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i have managed to record some southern aurora qso we had on 6m in 2018 i think. Its on youtube de vk3ktt (my new call) [Video: https://youtu.be/Nkg2TMFsMkE?si=O9BNTKvA21qtXKP7]