This is a very safe-site: (no cookies/no tracking/no embedded ads/no social-media links/no-media conglomerate ownership, etc.) Purposely written/coded in basic HTML level 2.0+ by SPMcGreevy for full compatibility with older browsers. (THIS SITE IS BEST VIEWED ON A LARGE-SCREEN iMac w/OS-X/MacOS 10.11.6>10.17.x and newer MacOS versions coming - also views fine in Win 7 to 10/Linux-Ubuntu browsers - tablet/desktop optimal in landscape-view).

Solar Cycle 25 increases suddenly quite spectacularly but still haltingly, but the trend is for increasing solar-activity in 2023!... After a three-month hiatus in WR-3 production I have resumed sales at eBay (vlfradio). Pray for Global Peace (or else...) - SpM.




Welcome to the Realm of
Natural ELF-VLF Radio Phenomena - Version Four

"The Music of the Magnetosphere and Space Weather"

www.auroralchorus.com


My Radio-Experimentation (and cats too!) at my YouTube Channel - NEW March 2022


Eight Audio Albums (MP3/WAV) of Natural ELF-VLF Radio Phenomena: "The Music of the Magnetosphere"
And also links to Seven Radio-DXing/MW-DX/FM-DX/Radio-DXpeditions done globally/radio-beacons/etc. (Internet Archives & SoundCloud Audio/Field-Recording Albums)



"The VLF Story" by Stephen P. McGreevy - (about my ELF-VLF field-recording travels from 1989 to 2018)


The WR-3 ELF-VLF Receiver Listening Guide


Occasional nice whistlers at this time early on Monday 01 October 2018 in the northern Mojave Desert - the best time of year to listen for whistlers - SP McGreevy


Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) Gallery 1984 to 2016 Travel (Popular page!)

Mediumwave Radio DX (and FM airchecks) and some natural ELF-VLF radio in Iceland Dec. 2016

The Best of Mediumwave DX in Hawaii (1986 to 1991) and on Oahu, Hawaii November 2010

Alpha and Omega Radionav. Systems

[STARDUST Capsule re-entry / Leonids meteor-storms FM-skip audio]

Aurora Photo Gallery: 1995 to 2001 Expedition-Travel

Funky Abandoned Hawaii-Island Cars 1986 / 1991

Photos of LowFER and MedFER folks from the late 1980's

British Antarctic Survey - Port Lockeroy-The (2001) WR-4d-BAS ELF-VLF Receiver built for Port Lockeroy, Antartica

The VLF Story (first written in 1995 and updated to 2018

Build the McGreevy BBB-4 ELF-VLF (e-field) Receiver - simple and fun!

Beautiful Marin Fog

FM-broadcast band DX (1988-2021 Es, Ms; plus VHF-low Band F2 skip) and Analogue-NTSC Television DX (2008-2013) - [2022 FM Es DX is on my AuroralChorus-X page - albums-page link is above]

Many Natural ELF-VLF Radio and Radio DXing MP3 Albums at archive.org

A photo-Gallery of my visit to Latvia - September 2009

Travel and Field Photos - Page One

Travel and Field Photos - Page Two

Electromagnetic-Smog Recording Project (Microwaves: Radar/Cell-mobile/4G/WiFi/ovens/etc.)

Glenn Hauser's World of Radio and DX Listening Digest

Electrically-quiet (little or no-AC-hum) locations I have found beginning in 1989.

The Longwave Club of America

Space Audio (YouTube) from the Fabulous U. Iowa Plasma Wave Group (PWG)


The Western Washington Lightning Location Network website


MICROSFERIC Real-time Lightning Sferic analysis and location(s) of source lightning sferics


Manitoba Aurora - Aug. 1996 photo

A Summer 1996 photo of gorgeous aurora over northern Manitoba, Canada, taken during my Manitoba Solar-Minimum VLF Expedition way back on 22 August 1996. Central/Northern Manitoba, Canada is an excellent region in North America (in late-Summer when it is still mild weather) to see gorgeous Aurora Borealis. If you wish to witness this incredible spectacle for yourself, you don't have to wait until the cold/dark of winter to go northward to see gorgeous Aurora if you head for central/northern Manitoba or Saskatchewan, Canada in late August or early September. I love the vast Canadian Boreal Forest region for its feeling of deep-wilderness! - "The True North Strong and Free."

Furthermore, I cannot recommend highly enough to anyone whom wishes to see the aurora for yourself--from experience I can highly suggest that the finest period is the four weeks surrounding 01 September. Presently, auroral displays and also natural-radio phenomena are at a minimum due to overall minimal solar-activity as we finally-depart a deep Solar-Minimum (late 2020). The Solar-Flux (2800 MHz_ reached 101 on 08 September 2021 and large sunspot groups are appearing at high solar latitudes, thus exhibiting good signs of the coming Cycle 25 rising-up along with a ramping-up of good outbtreaks of fine natural radio listening and phenomena. Aurora appears most frequently and brightly during the equinoctal periods around late-September and early-April (due to the alignment of Earth's magnetic-field and the IPF). Periods of fast solar-wind streams (>500 to 600 km/sec speeds) will often produce nice aurora and potentially a magnetic storm, too -- conditions ripe for whistlers.

Thus, late August through mid-September will definitely present the mildest/warmest weather for viewing (short sleeves/pants weather) Summer Prairie-Beauty Canadian weather! Do head for Canada's High Plains/Boreal Forest region in late Summer. To be deep into the optimal locations under the auroral-oval for the most superb Aurora enjoyment, journey up toward Thompson, Manitoba; The Peace Country of Alberta; or Hay River, NWT (as I did in June 1996). Find an electrically-quiet camping location and enjoy the ELF-VLF show, too! (We are coming out of a very low Solar-Minimum presently and so the signals are considerably more rare and challenging to capture compared to my previous recording-expeditions presented herein.



This is my website presenting the span of the time-period between June 1989 to the present in 2022 during which I have been researching and field-recording natural ELF-VLF radio phenomena via the Magnetosphere; lightning storms; telluric-origin signals; and radio "DXing."

(The entirety of this Version-Four website is in the Global-Public-Domain - nothing is copyrighted within and was updated on 09 September 2021.




Eight Audio Albums (MP3/WAV) of Natural ELF-VLF Radio Phenomena
"The Music of the Magnetosphere"
(and also links to six radio DXing/MW-DX/FM-DX/Radio DXpeditions done globally/Radiobeacons/etc. (Internet Archives Audio/Photo Albums)


(my friend was riding my nice Trek to take this flash photo long ago in June 2003... near Swansea, Calif. "ghostlette-town.")


Beaconeering the 'Gendarme' beacon 6627.0