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[QUOTE=&quot;Piggie, post: 21500, member: 2941&quot;]Probably the weird propagation I have seen on VHF happened in 1989.&nbsp; The aurora was so strong you could actually see it here in North Florida. It was slightly visible as far south as Orlando.&nbsp; There was also a massive tropo opening that night. I was hearing 2 meter repeaters when I noticed it as far north as the Carolinas (146 MHz). Then I heard people taking about seeing the Aurora up there, I went outside and low and behold the northern half of my sky were blobs of color. Not the dancing fences you see but just like someone threw blobs of color on the sky. I didn't have a 6m rig at the time but was talking to a guy I knew 25 east of me that was on the air talking up into Ohio and PA on tropo or something.&nbsp; The guys up north were hearing Canadians on Aurora skip (it has a weird echo sound). Then my buddy in Florida started hearing Candadians with that aurora sound, and exchanged call signs with several of them on 54 MHz. But what is weird it was that one of the longest known Aurora openings? After all we could see the color blobs in Florida.&nbsp; Or was it tropo skip from Florida to the Ohio/Penn region then changed to Aurora for the rest of the trip into Canada?We concluded it was not long Aurora skip.&nbsp; Because the stations in Ohio area didn't have the tell tale warble of Aurora skip, but the Canadian stations did.&nbsp; The guy in Florida that worked them recorded it and played it back to me over 146 MHz so I could hear it.&nbsp; Indeed it was most likely 2 part skip.&nbsp; And a LONGGGGGGGGGGG distance. A few days later in the same tropo opening another guy I knew scored a contact from Florida to New Hampshire on 1296 MHz.&nbsp; Now that is a long long long skip for that band.I have often said the hams need a 1 or 2 MHz of a band around 100 MHz or near the FM broadcast band.Why?&nbsp; That band is at a frequency where you can experience just about every type of propagation. As the article above shows.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Piggie, post: 21500, member: 2941"]Probably the weird propagation I have seen on VHF happened in 1989. The aurora was so strong you could actually see it here in North Florida. It was slightly visible as far south as Orlando. There was also a massive tropo opening that night. I was hearing 2 meter repeaters when I noticed it as far north as the Carolinas (146 MHz). Then I heard people taking about seeing the Aurora up there, I went outside and low and behold the northern half of my sky were blobs of color. Not the dancing fences you see but just like someone threw blobs of color on the sky. I didn't have a 6m rig at the time but was talking to a guy I knew 25 east of me that was on the air talking up into Ohio and PA on tropo or something. The guys up north were hearing Canadians on Aurora skip (it has a weird echo sound). Then my buddy in Florida started hearing Candadians with that aurora sound, and exchanged call signs with several of them on 54 MHz. But what is weird it was that one of the longest known Aurora openings? After all we could see the color blobs in Florida. Or was it tropo skip from Florida to the Ohio/Penn region then changed to Aurora for the rest of the trip into Canada? We concluded it was not long Aurora skip. Because the stations in Ohio area didn't have the tell tale warble of Aurora skip, but the Canadian stations did. The guy in Florida that worked them recorded it and played it back to me over 146 MHz so I could hear it. Indeed it was most likely 2 part skip. And a LONGGGGGGGGGGG distance. A few days later in the same tropo opening another guy I knew scored a contact from Florida to New Hampshire on 1296 MHz. Now that is a long long long skip for that band. I have often said the hams need a 1 or 2 MHz of a band around 100 MHz or near the FM broadcast band. Why? That band is at a frequency where you can experience just about every type of propagation. As the article above shows.[/QUOTE]

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