I heard a report about this last night on the radio. The guy said there was a similar flare back sometime in the 1800s. It damaged telegraph systems and caused arcing that started fires.

newsguy1 wrote:

I'm amazed the North Kawarthan government allowed this news to get out to the rest of the world... oh, wait, North Kawarthas...never mind.

Yes. Indeed. Military exercises and patriotic salutes to the Greatness of DX will follow.

I just now completed a scan of the MW and SW bands. They're completely wiped out. I can't get WWV on any of their frequencies.

I don't know if it is related, but the CTV station in Sudbury was off air at 11.30 pm last night, at least on my Sunwire service, but strangely, the CTV Northern Ontario logo was still in the bottom right corner. It was the only channel on my subscription list not visible. 

Last night I was hearing WRDT from Detroit because there was no skip to over ride it. At night they are less than 15 watts. It was very easy to hear 680 WNZK as well. New York and Chicago were not there. Somehow I could still get 750 WSB Atlanta at times.

Saul wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

The AM band was like daytime conditions last night. Stations that I don't usually hear at night were coming in, while the big clear channel stions one would expect to hear at night weren't there at all.

Instead of the usual Detroit and New York City on 1130 it was all Shreveport LA ... moments before the whole band went dead (just stuff I hear daytime and even that was noisy) around 2am. I didn't notice 640 off because the best action was the upper part of the band. Others heard include Mexico and another Spanish language station where Detroit and Washington normally mix on 1500; Mexico City atop Cincinnati on 1530, Two North Carolina stations on 1590 (no sigbn of usual Akron OH); WCHK GA with Latin music on 1290 where CJBK London used to be; 1470 WPIF SC Georgetown with True Oldies Channel and mentioning 101.1 translator.

Two standouts for me:

1309.66 HJAK COL Barranquilla — 2340 EDT May 10 — Spanish religious talk or preaching and then lively Spanish religious music //webstream. Best on west antenna after noticing strong het on 1310. The station is somehow running way off-frequency.

1490 WHOC MS Philadelphia — 0043 EDT May 11 "…on the legendary station WHOC”, and country music //webstream. 1490 is known as a graveyard channel in the DX hobby. A ton of very local stations maxing out at 1000 watts. I very rarely heard this far away on a GY channel. In fact I haven't heard too many stations from Mississippi.

FM yielded very muffled, hard to ID stations from NC, MD, MO, WI, MN and MI (and maybe IL).

A few recordings still to go through. And we might get more tonight.

The highlight, however, was seeing the northern lights (a shimmering white with very weak hints of other colours) mixing with loons calling on the lake. Kind of like what the Group of Seven would have got up to on Halloween. Oddly, the lights were overhead and also to the south. Not much to the north. Another DXer in Grimsby noted the same. Not sure why...
 

Wow. You had better luck than I had.
 

Saul wrote:

I'm in the north end of the Kawarthas (which some might know as North Korea). It's quite rural here. So no noise. Nice big outdoor antennas. Decent receiver. That helps me. I'm not always patient. This stuff takes it big time.

It brings back memories of where I lived for most of my life, The Bruce Peninsula. I long for those days when I didn't have to put up with man made noise. Also in those days there was more on the radio than there is today.