URGENT H.A.M NEWS

[Pugman1943]

The sun just had three CME ( coronal mass ejections ). One is expected to hit the earth this Friday with serious magnetic consequences.

FYI to you brother HAM operators.

 

[chiefmd]

I haven't been on the radio in forever.

 

[Light this!]

What the heck are Coronal Mass Erections?  :laugh:

 

[jfields]

Large enough can do some serious damage to our power grid. I haven't researched the ones Ed has been talking about, but there has been a lot of fear that if conditions fall in to place, we could be in a situation where transformers (enough of them) are fried, we could be without power for months depending on when/where they hit.
 
"The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1 September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same instrument recorded acrochet, an instantaneous perturbation of Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen and the recognition of theionosphere by Kennelly and Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph operators."
 
Just think about that last sentence, and how far we have come since 1859. Say bye bye to on board computers in cars, cell phones, power line transformers, etc. Glad I can hunt and fish!     :laugh:

 

[OpusXKC]

According to the charts on solarham.com it doesn't look like we'll get the worst of it, but if you're on the air you'll hear it on the bands.
 
http://www.solarham.net/cmewatch2.htm

 

[Pugman1943]

Opus, thanks for sharing this link. I follow many sites but did not know of this one. There is so much info out there with all the orbital satellites that it gets a tad overloaded to digest it all. I like how this is focused on the wind projections.

 

[Brickhouse]

Bastards, I thought we had some new information regarding bacon.

 

[OpusXKC]

Bastards, I thought we had some new information regarding bacon.

Thats a whole different "solar ham". You're thinking "solar oven bacon"....mmmmmmm bacon.