The Saint Patrick's Day aurora produced some interesting effects on 6 metres (50 Mhz)

This is a video showing me making a number of QSOs into the UK on 6 metres on Saint Patrick's Day. This was my first time working an aurora opening on VHF. It was quite interesting, and quite enjoyable. I also worked a few German stations, one French station and one Swedish station.

The HF bands are pretty dead this morning

HF propagation is non existent this morning. There is a moderate geomagnetic storm underway, with the K index at 5 (peak 6) which may be affecting things. I did hear one ZL station on 20m SSB this morning but pretty much nothing else. I made one contact with Gary EW1MM but he vanished in QSB. Above is a short video showing just how poor the band is. It's not that there's even any local stuff to be worked - it's just dead as a dodo! Ironically, the sunspot number is at 158, so hopefully when the aurora subsides we will have good propagation . . .