Are you affected by the heat?
Sep 4th 2011 | 6:48 am
#241
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Re: Are you affected by the heat?
Also interesting to note that severe geomagnetic storms can still occur even during a weak cycle.
Not having had a really exceptional one for a very long time I wonder what effects if any, such an event could have on todays hi-tec transistorised communications systems.
Not having had a really exceptional one for a very long time I wonder what effects if any, such an event could have on todays hi-tec transistorised communications systems.
especially if they end up in the Van Allen Belt
(gee this is fun)
Sep 4th 2011 | 7:18 am
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Re: Are you affected by the heat?
A honking great coronal ejection would fry everything electrical, on earth and off it.
Sep 4th 2011 | 7:21 am
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From: Vejer de la Fra., Cadiz
Re: Are you affected by the heat?
Not according to the experts who are predicting the lowest cycle peak since 1928.
In addition the following cycle no.25 is predicted to be one of the lowest for several hundred years.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...oaaprediction/
http://www.smeter.net/propagation/su...-forecasts.php
In addition the following cycle no.25 is predicted to be one of the lowest for several hundred years.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...oaaprediction/
http://www.smeter.net/propagation/su...-forecasts.php
With luck another miracle will occur....
Sep 4th 2011 | 7:22 am
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Sep 4th 2011 | 7:59 am
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Sep 4th 2011 | 8:24 am
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Re: Are you affected by the heat?
ISTR you should talk to bil about sunspot cycles......
never got my licence, lifelong SWL, did it professionaly for a living from ships and shorestations, starting in what was probably the heyday, when so much Govt Surplus was floating around in Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street etc.
did pirate a GB3 call one day, we had a commitment to be on air and the licenced guy was late arriving. with a logjam out there something had to be done. He did sign the log for my period though a few out there knew of my situation. My penance was filling in all the special QSL cards.
remember the day when aircraft from HMS Victorious off the Uk were talking to aircraft from HMS Ark Royal (or was it Eagle) in the South China Sea. I was on HMS Bulwark at the time. That was the time all 3 (and possibly HMS Albion) were in the SCS at the same time, just before the Vic had the disasterous fire that killed her off early.
aircraft bounce ? remember the old Fairy Gannet for that, known to some as the pregnant tadpole due to the comms dome underneath. Also "cloud bounce" with signal lamps
really do miss those times.............
and the kids today try to tell us all about internet (1970's), satnav (1960's), satcom (1970's) coding (1940's and earlier) still do 30+wpm morse and 50+ wpm touchtyping
never got my licence, lifelong SWL, did it professionaly for a living from ships and shorestations, starting in what was probably the heyday, when so much Govt Surplus was floating around in Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street etc.
did pirate a GB3 call one day, we had a commitment to be on air and the licenced guy was late arriving. with a logjam out there something had to be done. He did sign the log for my period though a few out there knew of my situation. My penance was filling in all the special QSL cards.
remember the day when aircraft from HMS Victorious off the Uk were talking to aircraft from HMS Ark Royal (or was it Eagle) in the South China Sea. I was on HMS Bulwark at the time. That was the time all 3 (and possibly HMS Albion) were in the SCS at the same time, just before the Vic had the disasterous fire that killed her off early.
aircraft bounce ? remember the old Fairy Gannet for that, known to some as the pregnant tadpole due to the comms dome underneath. Also "cloud bounce" with signal lamps
really do miss those times.............
and the kids today try to tell us all about internet (1970's), satnav (1960's), satcom (1970's) coding (1940's and earlier) still do 30+wpm morse and 50+ wpm touchtyping
Lots of unusual contacts back then such as polar expeditions and one which was like a touch of the Tony Hancocks when I picked up a guy stranded on his yacht in the Indian ocean.
Turned out his family only lived a few miles from me so I passed on the word to his mother that he was ok and he sent me a thank you card from Thailand a week or two later.
I used to chat regular with US Jumbo pilots mainly crossing the Atlantic with little else to do when on auto pilot.
They used to give me more accurate weather forecasts than the met office.
I still have my log book from way back then when I made quite a lot of friends worldwide and was eventually fortunate enough to visit a few of them.
Todays hi-tec communications have taken a bit of the shine off it now, but it was wonderful, even like magic back then, to be able chat with folk on the other side of the globe by means of a homemade antenna and occasionally a homemade rig.
Sep 4th 2011 | 9:10 am
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Sep 4th 2011 | 11:13 am
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From: In the middle of 10million Olive Trees
Re: Are you affected by the heat?
Also interesting to note that severe geomagnetic storms can still occur even during a weak cycle.
Not having had a really exceptional one for a very long time I wonder what effects if any, such an event could have on todays hi-tec transistorised communications systems.
Not having had a really exceptional one for a very long time I wonder what effects if any, such an event could have on todays hi-tec transistorised communications systems.
Sep 4th 2011 | 11:17 am
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