I think this means a few days of detecting interference

[MarkCZ]

This just in from the Internet.

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The sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type — at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) today from an Earth-facing sunspot known as Active Region 2158, which also fired off another intense solar flare yesterday. Both space weather events were captured on camera by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Today's solar flare qualifies as an X1.6 storm but poses no danger to anyone on Earth or the astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA officials told Space.com. However, some people's lives could be affected by the solar tempest.

"Impacts to HF [high-frequency] radio communications on the daylight side of Earth are expected to last for more than an hour," researchers with the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) wrote in an online update today.

Further effects could be felt later in the week if the sunspot also fired off a cloud of superhot plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs often accompany powerful flares and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth, typically two to three days after erupting.

Geomagnetic storms can temporarily disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids, as well as intensify the beautiful auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.

 

[ironsight]

We're doomed, more EMI detector interference!

Now that i think of it, on some channels my TV satellite keeps switching back and forth from HD to SD for no apparent reason. That only happens with intense thunderstorm or heavy rain activity in the past.

Thanks for the heads up on the flare, first i heard of it.

 

[MarkCZ]

We're doomed, more EMI detector interference!

Now that i think of it, on some channels my TV satellite keeps switching back and forth from HD to SD for no apparent reason. That only happens with intense thunderstorm or heavy rain activity in the past.

Thanks for the heads up on the flare, first i heard of it.

I found out years ago, that even in the mid-day, mid-summer heat, that my detectors were WAY more noisy then cooler over cast days, or early mornings, or fall or winter days. Solar energy charges ground minerals and effects everything around us. Long Hot Days, allows more exposure to solar energy, when the sun goes down the charged energy starts to dissipate and is at it lowest just before sunup. At lest that's been my findings over the years.

Mark

 

[mudpuppy]

Yep...been watching this inbound on spaceweather.com...glad you keep an eye on this stuff too..a guy has to pay attention to the weather, especially an inbound potential Carrington event..guy needs a little heads up to get last minute supplies for the stoneage...dont know if this is 'the one', they say not, but still..
Mud

 

[2 Much Trash]

This just in from the Internet.

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The sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type — at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) today from an Earth-facing sunspot known as Active Region 2158, which also fired off another intense solar flare yesterday. Both space weather events were captured on camera by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Today's solar flare qualifies as an X1.6 storm but poses no danger to anyone on Earth or the astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA officials told Space.com. However, some people's lives could be affected by the solar tempest.

"Impacts to HF [high-frequency] radio communications on the daylight side of Earth are expected to last for more than an hour," researchers with the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) wrote in an online update today.

Further effects could be felt later in the week if the sunspot also fired off a cloud of superhot plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs often accompany powerful flares and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth, typically two to three days after erupting.

Geomagnetic storms can temporarily disrupt GPS signals, radio communications and power grids, as well as intensify the beautiful auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.

No worries. Just dig all the iffy signals. Should do ok.