Showing posts with label solar cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar cycle. Show all posts
Friday, May 10, 2024

A = 97 K = 9

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Super Solar Storms May Not Be So Rare

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  Click on the image for a clearer view Yesterday's Washington Post had a good story about large solar storms.  We are all aware of the ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

The Carrington Event and the Current Solar Cycle (Solar Max "Sooner and Stronger")

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  From the article:  "Sunspot activity has increased dramatically in early 2023, with sunspot numbers far exceeding NASA's predicti...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

WIRED on the Dangers of another Carrington Event, Solar Cycle 25, Capacitors Could Save Us All

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This Wired article has some really interesting info on competing theories about the solar cycle, about the danger to the Earth from solar fl...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

The (Real) Solar Flare of August 1972 in Cixin Liu's Science Fiction

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  A view of McMath Region 11976 from the Paris Observatory early on 4 August 1972.  I have a vivid memory of seeing -- as a kid -- Aurora fr...
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Friday, December 10, 2021

Where is Sunspot Cycle 25?

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The other day I was complaining to Pete N6QW that 17 meters still seems to be in very poor shape.  I can hear 6Y6Y around mid day, but I don...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Cosmic Rays, Bit Flips, and Computer Vulnerability

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Here is a very interesting video about a problem that many of us have been blissfully unaware.  You can see the role played by the solar cyc...
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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Good News! The Termination Event May Be Coming Soon! Solar Cycle 25 Could Rival Cycle 19!

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Wow.  Cycle 25 might be as good or better than Cycle 19.  Pete cut his radio teeth on Cycle 19.  I was born during that cycle.  Let's ho...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #226 The U.S. Election, Solar Cycle, uSDX, Hermes, HP8640B, SGC 600 Sig Gen, HA-600A, Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast # 226   http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke226.mp3 ---------------------------------- About the U.S. election -----------...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Solar Cycle 25 - The Gleissberg Cycle Dashes Hopes for a Big Solar Max

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  In our last podcast Pete N6QW expressed pessimism about Solar Cycle 25.   I pushed back, asking Pete to stop with the negative vibes.  Wel...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

The South Atlantic Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field

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In case you've grown tired of worrying about infectious disease, here's another scientific problem for you to worry about: http...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

NOAA Prediction for Solar Cycle 25

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A peak sunspot number of 115 might seem paltry, until you remember that we are at ZERO now.  https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/solar-cycl...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Minimalist Masochism at Solar Minima -- But More Contacts with the ET-2

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Dylan Thoams   "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"  I thought of that line from Dylan Thomas's poem when I read...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

The First Sunspots of Cycle 25 -- Explained by Space Weather Woman (Video)

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Dr. Tamitha Skov explains how Cycle 25 has begun while Cycle 24 is not quite finished.  She has a very clear way of presenting the space ...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

SolderSmoke Podcast #208

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SolderSmoke Podcast #208 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke208.mp3 15 December 2018 Pete and the California fire...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

1972 Solar Flare Caused Naval Mines to Explode

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There are reports out this morning that a big solar flare in 1972 caused naval mines placed by the U.S. off the coast of Vietnam to explode....
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

A Bleak Outlook for Sunspots

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Chris Trask N7ZWY posted a very interesting sunspot graph on G-QRP: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/Solar%20Activity%20160...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

SolderSmoke Podcast #174:Belthorn III, BITX20(-40), Parasites, Test Gear, Hamfest, SPRAT, Flares, BITX History

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SolderSmoke Podcast #174 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke174.mp3 March 28, 2015 Happy Arduino Day! Pete's Belth...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Working VK6 Homebrew During the Big Solar Flare

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There I was. 0900 UTC (0 Dark Thirty local),  the morning after the big March 17 St. Patrick's Day Coronal Mass Ejection Impact.  Sol...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Interesting Propagation Web Site

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CONUS HF BAND CONDX 1/22/15 --- 10:45:00 GMT --- REPORT # 1289 160 80 40 30 20 15 10 I think this is a really interesting and ...
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