Old sunspot AR3664 has returned, and it is crackling with X-flares

Space Weather News for May 29, 2024
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EARTH IS BACK IN THE STRIKE ZONE: Returning sunspot AR3664 is picking up
where it left off two weeks ago. Today, it unleashed a long-duration
X1.4-class solar flare, which caused a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Americas. From now on, every explosion will be geoeffective as the sunspot turns to squarely face our planet in the days ahead.

Full story @ Spaceweather.com (https://spaceweather.com) .
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Re: Back in the Strike Zone
By: Mike Powell to All on Wed May 29 2024 15:59:51

Hi,
What does the solar outlook look like for the upcoming field day on the 22nd or are we not close enough to that date yet?
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What does the solar outlook look like for the upcoming field day on the 22nd or
are we not close enough to that date yet?

I get my solar info second hand and have not seen anything that far out yet.

It looks like noaa has several solar weather prediction products at the following website:

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov

Click on the "Products and Data" link. Looks like they have a few 3 day outlook products, and at least a couple that predict for longer periods.

Mike

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I was a bit surprised to see your posts here.

Are you a Shortwave listener?
Ed
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I was a bit surprised to see your posts here.

Are you a Shortwave listener?

I mainly posted because I received that spaceweather alert that mentioned potential affects to SW radio.

When I was younger, and had access to a radio capable of picking up SW, I was
a listener. I would listen to Radio Moscow, hoping to hear some secrets
that could be helpful to the US (not realizing that there were probably
already plenty of US officials who also had access to SW radio!). I would
also listen to the BBC, VOA, WRNO out of New Orleans (which played music),
and to a few other English-language broadcasts.

Other times I would tune around and find broadcasts that were not in
English. The ones I would listen to for a while were the ones that sounded like some military leader yelling while the background contained crowd
noise. I never had any idea where those were coming from. I always
assumed Cuba but the language either wasn't Spanish or was spoken to
quickly for me to understand it.

The things that ammuse a ~12 year old boy on a cold winter day. ;)

One thing I was disappointed in, looking back, was that I never knowning listened to a numbers station. I probably did and just didn't know what
they were back then. There is a Youtuber, Ringway Manchester, whose videos
I will watch sometimes. He often talks about odd SW stations and other broadcasting interests.

Mike

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When I was in Junior High School a neighbor heard that I became interested in becoming a SWL and gave a Midwest Radio he hadn't used for years to me.
It didn't have the Case, just the Radio and external Speaker.
The Speaker didn't have a magnet, the Filter Choke for the power supply was mounted on the back of the 12 inch speaker and magnetism for the speaker came from the FC when the radio was turned on.

I mostly listened to Radio Berne Switzerland.

The neighbor also gave the manual for the radio.
The manual showed a Schematic on it and since the radio didn't have a case I learned about electronics from looking at the Schematic and the underside of the radio (unplugged, of course).

When I visited a school friend one day, he turned on the Hallicrafters S-38d and tund in WWV, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) Time Station, and that interested me enough that I desired to become a SWL too.

In High School he met a Ham and got his Novice License and a couple years later I got my Novice Ham License too.
Sorta a copycat.
Ed

I mainly posted because I received that spaceweather alert that mentioned potential affects to SW radio.

When I was younger, and had access to a radio capable of picking up SW, I was a listener. I would listen to Radio Moscow, hoping to hear some secrets
that could be helpful to the US (not realizing that there were probably already plenty of US officials who also had access to SW radio!). I would also listen to the BBC, VOA, WRNO out of New Orleans (which played music), and to a few other English-language broadcasts.

Other times I would tune around and find broadcasts that were not in
English. The ones I would listen to for a while were the ones that sounded like some military leader yelling while the background contained crowd
noise. I never had any idea where those were coming from. I always
assumed Cuba but the language either wasn't Spanish or was spoken to
quickly for me to understand it.

The things that ammuse a ~12 year old boy on a cold winter day. ;)

One thing I was disappointed in, looking back, was that I never knowning listened to a numbers station. I probably did and just didn't know what
they were back then. There is a Youtuber, Ringway Manchester, whose videos
I will watch sometimes. He often talks about odd SW stations and other broadcasting interests.

Mike

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The neighbor also gave the manual for the radio.
The manual showed a Schematic on it and since the radio didn't have a case I learned about electronics from looking at the Schematic and the underside of the radio (unplugged, of course).

That is a good way to learn.

When I visited a school friend one day, he turned on the Hallicrafters S-38d and tund in WWV, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) Time Station, an
that interested me enough that I desired to become a SWL too.

I remember listening to time stations... "at the sound of the tone..." :)

In High School he met a Ham and got his Novice License and a couple years late
I got my Novice Ham License too.
Sorta a copycat.

I never knew any HAMs until I got into BBSing, and had never realized that amateurs could talk on the airwaves.

Mike

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That is a good way to learn.

I remember listening to time stations... "at the sound of the tone..." :)

Look at. time.gov. No noise, just time to the second.
^ I didn't put the dot there .
This phone thinks if. IT sees a space it will put a period after the last character (and it put one after the word. If in the line above)
[Too many bAckspaces to make. If I wanted to remove it now.)

Ed

I never knew any HA until I got into BBSing, and had never realized that amateurs could talk on the airwaves.

Mike

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