Aurora seen at my QTH, May 5th, 2024 at 23:00 LT, it wasn’t even completely dark…

A massive geomagnetic storm, reportedly the most severe one since 2005, resulted in nice aurora sightings… The picture above is taken from my antenna location in Woerden (JO22kc) with a simple iPhone camera.

It does mean that I’m a little bit in the “Dog Days” for DX… With sunny skies and thus solar panel QRM pretty much killing off MF/HF during the day, Aurora shutting down MF at night, and no sign of Sporadic E yet “radio life” is pretty dull.