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solar flare?
- Thread starter Se7en
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Usually not good. It disrupts radio waves. Expect noisy crappy interference conditions today. It was not a direct earth facing flare so it wont be as bad as it could of been.
Yep, usually not good. I have been on the air when the effects of a solar flare swept past the earth and the bottom just dropped out of a busy 20m band. Literally within a minute signals just disappeared or dropped from 20 over nine to barely readable and fluttery.
It has made dx unusually difficult for me here in the midwest. The signals that do make it in sound attenuated or far away, it is a weird disruption.
large solar flares can cause damage to things we value:sad:this gives more information on that http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/159...mi-auroras-earth-sun-cme-carrington-event.htm
here is a link showing the one you are referring to APOD: 2011 June 10 - The Sun Unleashed
Tell me about it. Been there, done that, worked the overtime because of it. :sad: Back in 1994 we had a big solar flare that released a huge amount of energy. I was called at home because we lost all satellite services in both the newsroom and main studios. After determining the issue was loss of signal into all three satellite receivers I called Broadcast News/Canadian Press in Toronto to report a trouble. They told me that Telesat Canada had "lost" a bird and all services were down.Anik E1 and E2 satellites had malfunctioned and shut down because of a space storm.Eventually I had to realign a twelve foot fixed mount dish to another bird where Telesat Canada and Broadcast News were moving services to in the interim. One bird was eventually recovered and partially restored to service but the other was toast. The high energy particles caused the stabilising gyros to fail and caused the satellites to tumble out of their orbital slots and be lost in space for a time. One bird also suffered a failed transponder package making it a half-billion dollars worth of space junk. In an extreme case power transmission line transformers and generator stations can be fried.