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Are there any preferred geographic listening positions for Natural Radio signals? |
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Sferics and tweeks can be heard almost anywhere, but whistlers and VLF
emissions are more prevalent in northern and southern latitudes. These
signals are rarely heard in the tropics. Since whistlers and VLF
emissions propagate along the earth' field lines, they tend to exit the
ionosphere at more northerly latitudes and thus are more often heard
there. Whistlers tend to be most prevalent around a geomagnetic
latitude of 50 degrees.
In the USA there seems to be better Natural Radio reception in the
Western States as opposed to the eastern states and midwest. I don't
know of any studies that have been done on this, but it may be due to
the fact that there are more open spaces away from power lines and thus
better listening locations in the west. It also may be due to some
other phenomenon.
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