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Re: Solar storm Fridays
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWhat you probably experienced was the recent X-Class solar flare (here¡¯s the timeline graphic): But the CME is still inbound, I¡¯m sorry to say!? It¡¯s forecast to arrive early tomorrow morning:
? Marc From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joseph Bell via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2024 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MACS / MITN Solar storm Fridays ? Funny you should send this!? I was on a MARS net this morning @ 8AM as NCS and part way through the net we had a complete collapse of the 5 MEG band in less than 10 seconds!? ? Bam! At that point, I could hear only a few stations but it was enough top relay the freq move to 6 MHZ- ? The training we have done allowed us to recover in 8 minutes and resume operations-? With surprisingly strong signals- Evidently the solar event was shot lived!? ? Very rarely do we go lower than 5 MEG's for operations- even at night-? ? DE WD8USA?? ? On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 07:06:25 PM EDT, ND8W <nd8w@...> wrote: ? ? Space Weather Message Code: WATA50 Serial Number: 80 Issue Time: 2024 Oct 02 1701 UTC ? WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G3 Predicted ? Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Oct 03:? G1 (Minor)?? Oct 04:? G3 (Strong)?? Oct 05:? G2 (Moderate) ? THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT ? NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at ? Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices. Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur. Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon. ? |
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Solar storm Fridays
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýSpace Weather Message Code: WATA50 Serial Number: 80 Issue Time: 2024 Oct 02 1701 UTC ? WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G3 Predicted ? Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Oct 03:? G1 (Minor)?? Oct 04:? G3 (Strong)?? Oct 05:? G2 (Moderate) ? THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT ? NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at ? Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices. Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur. Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon. ? |
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Re: QSO ON 7232
7236 On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:54?AM Pete Hardin via <hardinpc=[email protected]> wrote:
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ND8W
Dave