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Aurora is a phenomena which is most prevalent in the regions close to the so called "Aurora Belt". Depending on where you live in the world this belt may be southern Canada or the northern part of the Nordic countries. In these areas Aurora will occur a dozen times a year, even in the quiet periods of the Solar Cycle. If you live more to the south, like in Central Europe, years may pass with little or no Aurora openings.
 Finally, after a very long solar minimum, our neighbouring star has been showing activity since early 2010. Sunspots have been appearing again, but thus far there have been no major Aurora openings. However, we are interested to have infos about ANY Aurora opening occurring in the European area (other parts of the Northen and Southern hemisphere may be added later, depending on Ham and Solar activity). So if you make any Aurora QSOs on 2 metre or 70 cm, please post them into the aurora page using LOGIN, or send as a text file to pa3biy@mmmonvhf.de and pa2dw@mmmonvhf.de. The results of QSOs will be plotted on a map of Europe, and/or posted as lists of worked stations.

In order to produce an intersection map of the position of the Aurora cloud(s), we need reports from both stations who have been involved in a QSO, including an accurate beam heading. Please use LOGIN (please register), and file your list of QSOs by clicking: "Send your report" and follow the guidelines. 

 

Example log entry by PA3BIY:

12:14 PA4EME JO20WX 45

12:17 HA5CRX JN97NM 85

If you are new to VHF DX, you might want to read this small introduction article about Aurora and its relation to the Sun. Other articles related to VHF propagation can be found on the FORUM page.

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Select Database entry Last update: 02. Jan 2025 at 16:42 UTC Year: 1991 | 2001 | 2004 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 Month: Mar | Apr | May | Aug | Oct Day: 10 | 11

10. Oct 2024 The X1 flare of October 9th early on the UTC day, triggered a very fast CME. The arrival of the CME yesterday afternoon caused a strong sweep of the IMF to the south of -20 nT. After 22 GMT it strengthened considerably to -40 nT.

IV3NDC | ON4KBE | PA5MS

IV3NDC, Massimo - JN65RV Rig: 500W, BF981, 14 ele BV Log: 23:21 PA0O JO33HG 20 23:29 PA2M JO21IP 30 23:36 G4KWQ IO92AQ 325 23:44 OK1ZHS JO70VA 30 23:48 OK1DIX JO70EC 30 Comment: All QSO in CW. The long wait was rewarded as the band suddenly opened late in the night, with good signals, Unfortunately there were few stations active at that time. Opening lasted for about 80 minutes here. TNX to All, Massimo

ON4KBE, Edgard - JO20BI Rig: 80W and 10 él.DK7ZB ODX: SM7GVF JO77GA 1008 kms Log: 18:40 EI3KD IO51VW 57A 57A CW QTF 20 878 kms 18:50 GM4ILS IO87IP 59A 55A CW QTF 30 944 kms 19:10 MM0CEZ IO75XU 58A 57A CW QTF 30 819 kms 19:12 SM7GVF IO77GA 57A 55A CW QTF 25 1008 kms 19:39 GM4YXI IO87WK 58A 55A CW QTF 30 887 kms Comment: Thank you very much for the QSOs. Best 73 de Edgard.

PA5MS, John - JO21RQ Rig: IC756 + Javornik + 4CX350F 400W + 4x11el ODX: LA3BO 881km Log: 16:42 GØLBK JOØ3BD 59a 59a CW qtf 30 396 16:47 G4KWQ IO92AO 55a 57a CW qtf 30 516 16:52 MMØCEZ IO75XU 59a 59a CW qtf 30 776 16:54 G4PIQ JOØ2OD 57a 57a CW qtf 30 296 16:57 PA3CWN JO33AH 59a 57a CW qtf 60 185 17:03 LA3BO JO59CD 55a 55a CW qtf 15 881 19:25 GM4ILS IO87IP 57a 57a CW qtf 15 868 19:40 SM7GVF JO77GA 59a 57a CW qtf 25 834 19:56 OZ1HDF JO55UN 59a 57a CW qtf 350 596 19:56 F6DBI IN88IJ 57a 57a CW qtf 350 723 20:08 OZ6OL JO65DJ 59a 59a CW qtf 350 611 Comment: Nice to work some aurora again. This time only CW contacts, met a lot of old friends, heard some more stations than I've worked. most of them were stations answereing someones CQ. Hope to catch some more comming months 73! John PA5MS