I1JTQ - Aurora Propagation Page
Turin City is situated at 45° Lat. North and 7° Long. East, surrounded by Alps (in North direction We have 4500 mt. mountains high, 80km far), then is almost impossible have usual VHF propagation via Polar Auroras. Anyway, since 1979 I've worked 15 different Aurora's opening from here, the last one in November 2003.
A good opening was in 1991, In that case Aurora was also visible from here; below You can see a photograph taken from JN35st (Aosta Valley) at 1900 m.a.s.l, the 9th of November 1991 at 01.10 UTC (I was in QSO with PA3BZO, antenna QTF 355 deg.).
Picture by Roberto Parisio
My Aurora's opening list, worked from Turin city
yyyy mm dd start end QTF Country WKD n° QSO
1991 Jun 05 16,52 18,10
20deg PA G DL ON 10
1991 Jul 13 15,40 17,35 25deg G PA DL
ON 13
1991 Nov 08/09 22,10 02,00 355deg PA DL GW
G 16
1992 Jan 26 20,11 20,30 10deg G
3
1992 May 10 13,45 17,44 25deg PA G DL
ON 20
1998 Aug 27 15,35 16,30 20deg G
DL
8
2000 Apr 06/07 23,30 00,50 10deg PA G
DL 10
2000 Jul 15 21,45 23,30 20deg G DL
PA 13
2001 Mar 31 16,09 16,52 30deg DL PA G
ON 14
2001 Apr 11 17,10 21,40 25deg DL
PA
3
2001 May 23 16,55 17,10 20deg DL
PA 4
2002 Oct 29 06,55 22,50 25deg G PA
DL 13
2003 Oct 30/31 21,20 01,30 30deg PA GW G DL
ON 31
2003 Nov 20 18,45 18,51 15deg PA
DL 2
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