It is established within experimental error that the relevant characteristics of diffuse radio aurora seen by the Thompson (48 MHz) radar at high aspect angles (8¿--14¿) are the same as those observed by others at low aspect angles. Specifically, during a study of radio aurora in the sunlit auroral oval it was found that the relationship between the intensity of high aspect angle diffuse radio aurora and the magnitude of the geomagnetic disturbance is consistent with that observed by others. McDiarmid and McNamara (1978) have already shown that the same radio aurora is related to field-aligned currents in the way as was previously observed at low aspect angle. These results imply that more definitive work in the neighborhood of 50 MHz at these high aspect angles which occur at relatively high latitudes (&Lgr;>70¿) would lead to a significant increase in our understanding of auroral physics.