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EAST COAST TO THE NORTHERN EQUATORIAL TEP CREST OVER WEST AFRICA AND ON TO
CENTRAL AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN.  THE CLASSIC DECEMBER MAGIC NEW
ZEALAND OPENINGS ARE THOUGHT TO BE DUE TO ES LINKS FROM NORTH AMERICA AND
NEW ZEALAND TO THE TEP ZONE OVER THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN.  GEOMAGNETIC
STORM AND AURORA ON APRIL 23 A STRONG CORONAL MASS EJECTION IMPACT OCCURRED
AT 1737 UTC ON APRIL 23 AND SPARKED A SEVERE G4 CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORM
WITH AN 8 KP.  VISUAL EFFECTS OF THE AURORA WERE SEEN AS FAR SOUTH AS SAN
DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.  THE FIRST AURORA RADIO SPOTS APPEARED AT AROUND 1930
UTC WHEN THE BZ WENT SOUTH.  I WAS PORTABLE WHEN I COPIED AURORA ACTIVITY
ON 6 METERS AT 1950 UTC WITH BEACONS K0KP/B EN36 AND K9APW/B EN53.  ABOUT
20 MINUTES LATER, LIVE SIGNALS APPEARED IN THE 6 METER CW BAND, INCLUDING A
LOUD N0TB EN34.  I SAW STRONG SIGNALS ON FT8, BUT THEY WERE WIDE AND NOT
DECODABLE.  K2DRH EN41 MANAGED TO WORK KD9VV EN71 ON AURORA WITH MSK144.
CW AND SSB WERE THE PRIMARY MODES FOR WORKING THE AURORA DUE TO THE DOPPLER
SHIFT OF THE SIGNALS.  SOME STATIONS, INCLUDING N0LL, K2DRH, AND WW1L,
SUCCESSFULLY MADE AURORA CONTACTS ON 6 METERS WITH THE NEW Q65 30C MODE.
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