Hey check this out go to NASA's web site and type solar storm into their search engine.
www.nasa.gov
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Pretty cool stuff. We're on the upswing of an 11-year solar storm cycle. The GPS/cellphones/ radios're gonna get awful noisy/nonexistant pretty soon.
What's that song REM used to sing, It's the end of the something something something know it? lol Does UNA or NW SHOALS offer classes on living off the land?
Nah, it'll be cool! You'll be able to listen to Radio Moscow on your car radio-and about 50 other stations simultaneously. CB will become a chaotic nightmare, forget shortwave-Only CW stands a chance of getting through the noise.
All those GPS and Direct TV satellites launched in the 80s/early 90s without any hardening are gonna get pounded out of existence by induced electrical currents.
'Tucky fried birds.
Basically anything terrestrial without a faraday cage around it's entire system is gonna have some major problems.
This cycle promises to be a good one.
All those GPS and Direct TV satellites launched in the 80s/early 90s without any hardening are gonna get pounded out of existence by induced electrical currents.
'Tucky fried birds.
Basically anything terrestrial without a faraday cage around it's entire system is gonna have some major problems.
This cycle promises to be a good one.
I don't get it.
Solar storms are about as predictable as predicting the weather 30 days out. Whenever you guys are seeing probably amounts to nothing.
Solar storms are about as predictable as predicting the weather 30 days out. Whenever you guys are seeing probably amounts to nothing.
Wasn't this same thing supposed to happen back in the 80s? I remember the truck drivers and CB radio guys talking about it. Said radio signals would never work again.
While there is normally an 11 year cycle, some scientists also believe there is an 88 year cycle of particularly strong solar storms.
This cycle has been going on for billions and billions of years.
Early stone age hams waited patiently for these peaks.
Stone tablets of QST date back millions of years.
The propagation charts were there.
Early stone age hams waited patiently for these peaks.
Stone tablets of QST date back millions of years.
The propagation charts were there.
Can you imagine if all cell phones quit working for any length of time. People are so addicted to them it would be chaos and mass panic attacks.
Imagine the wrecks from people fiddling with their phones trying to get them to work.....
quote:Originally posted by leo:
Wasn't this same thing supposed to happen back in the 80s? I remember the truck drivers and CB radio guys talking about it. Said radio signals would never work again.
It happened back then. Before that so-called solar storm era; CB radio back in the 70's worked great. You could talk skip over several hyndred miles. Even without any help, (linears), you could talk 25, 30 muiles or more. Then when it happened you were lucky to talk 5 miles. Solar storms do happen and they have strange effects on communications. Not sure how they will affect satillites but it is something to think about!