I can verify.
Being a broadcaster I've noticed some spotty propagation the other day on the am bands. When the sun is active, signals tend to bounce around to
areas normally impossible to reach.
CB users call it skip.
HAM users call it scatter.
Great time to communicate to random parts of the world. It's a yahoo chat on steroids.
Though weak, I did hear some spanish stations. A short trip really but an indication that the sun "blinked" for a while. Hopefully things pick up
since I invested a lot in new gear this summer past.
The Sun Shows Signs of Life, page 1
privacy
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 2 times
ATS Members have flagged this thread 2 times
Topic started on 11-12-2008 @ 09:12 PM by Thurisaz
Wow! Surprised to see that this one hasn't been covered on ATS.
The Sun Shows Signs of Life, Nov. 7, 2008
I had read previously on ATS that the Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking Will Launch MJission To Study
and that the Vanishing Sunspot Mystery Has Scientists Worried! The Beginning Of The Ice Age?
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom around lately... so it is great to read something positive.
[edit on 11-12-2008 by Thurisaz]
After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life.
"I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
His statement is prompted by an October flurry of sunspots. "Last month we counted five sunspot groups," he says. That may not sound like much, but in a year with record-low numbers of sunspots and long stretches of utter spotlessness, five is significant. "This represents a real increase in solar activity."
The Sun Shows Signs of Life, Nov. 7, 2008
I had read previously on ATS that the Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking Will Launch MJission To Study
and that the Vanishing Sunspot Mystery Has Scientists Worried! The Beginning Of The Ice Age?
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
Although the current solar minimum represents a 50-year low in sunspot counts, There is in fact nothing wrong with the sun
Solar minima this deep and long are common in the historical record and do not represent a fundamental breakdown of the sun's 11-year activity cycle
There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom around lately... so it is great to read something positive.
[edit on 11-12-2008 by Thurisaz]
reply posted on 11-12-2008 @ 11:13 PM by nine-eyed-eel
reply to post by Jasestrong2
I use spaceweather.com too...I have a street/crowd/people job, and what made me subscribe to the service is the correlation between solar flare/geomagnetic storm activity and bad behavior...some days everybody would be squirrelly and fighting for no reason and I would discover later there was solar activity in that time window...there hasn't been much lately but I anticipate the alerts will give me a heads-up on bad-monkey-nights as the sun gets perky again...
I use spaceweather.com too...I have a street/crowd/people job, and what made me subscribe to the service is the correlation between solar flare/geomagnetic storm activity and bad behavior...some days everybody would be squirrelly and fighting for no reason and I would discover later there was solar activity in that time window...there hasn't been much lately but I anticipate the alerts will give me a heads-up on bad-monkey-nights as the sun gets perky again...
Pages: ^^TOP^^
Mysterious Signal From Outer Space - Is Someone Trying To Contact Us?
Posted 11 days ago with 29 member flags
Posted 11 days ago with 29 member flags
It\'s already begun?The reverse of the Magnetic Poles.Sun and Earth.
Posted 19 days ago with 21 member flags
Posted 19 days ago with 21 member flags
The Above Top Secret Web sites are a
wholly owned social content community of
The Above Network, LLC.
This content community relies on
user-generated content from our member contributors.
The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership
who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides
a collaborative venue for free expression.
ATS Server: www3.theabovenetwork.com
Header data: 0.003 seconds
Page processed in: 0.048 seconds
wholly owned social content community of
The Above Network, LLC.
This content community relies on
user-generated content from our member contributors.
The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership
who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides
a collaborative venue for free expression.
ATS Server: www3.theabovenetwork.com
Header data: 0.003 seconds
Page processed in: 0.048 seconds
