I continued calling and on the next QSB peak we had a solid QSO.

The first recording runs about 15 minutes and demonstrates the extremely deep QSB and has our QSO at the end – even with 30 dB of amplificaton from the Beverage antenna,  PJ4C almost  disappeared completely due to the deep fading – the station was mostly inaudible on my transmit antenna – the Arctic King which fires straight into a mountain in this direction :

Download audio file (PJ4C_160_QSO.mp3)

The second recording is edited to have only the QSO between PJ4C and TF4M.

PJ4C_160mQSO

Even when PJ4C was the strongest, this is really only a RST 519 signal – but due to my quiet location, I can cascade two 15dB amplifiers when needed to bring signals up to readable strength.

Bonaire was a part of the Netherlands Antilles until their dissolution on 10-10-10.

The political change resulted in four new DXCC entities (Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire and Saba/Sint Eustatius)

This is entity #177 worked on Top Band.

The operator at PJ4C was Kenneth, OZIKY – I worked him the following day on SSB on17m and he mentioned the contact.

The Arctic King continues to amaze.

I have made a few additional contacts with as shown in their online logs which are updated very quickly – apparently in real-time.

PJ4C continue to churn out the contacts and I have now worked them on all bands more or less…

This is a recording of our 80m QSO:

Download audio file (PJ4C_80M.mp3)

This is a recording of our 40m QSO:

Download audio file (PJ4C_40M_QSO.mp3)

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I came across  software called SvalTrack II, which gives a very nice graphical view of present Aurora conditions.

The representation of the Auroral Oval clearly shows how badly TF is affected from the slightest Auroral activity.

For a full explanation of the effects of the Aurora, please click on the menu item “JA-TF 160″ above.

I might add that this low Auroral level does not create visible Aurora at my location, but I´m certainly hoping for this to happen, I might still get some nice Aurora photos.

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Hi!
I’m an artist working on a charity project for a wildlife center here in Montreal and my project is to create a website for the shelter. I was looking for a great background for the pages of the site and went on a search online for a beautiful sky – I found your photographs to be amazing and was hoping I could have your permission to use an image from your northern lights photos for the website. I/we would greatly appreciate your donation of one of your great images. Please let me know, thanks!

Jesse Allarie

I was very pleased that somebody liked my photos and permission was immediately granted.

The site is now live and may be viewed at  Urban Animal Advocates  – my photo was used as the background for the site.   It certainly looks beautiful.

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