[AMRadio] Must have survived the EMP

[D. Chester]

> Wonder if it would have survived the Solar Flare EMP of 1859? It was so 
> strong
> that arcs at telegraph offices shocked telegraphers and set paper on fire. 
> It
> was said that the lines had so much induced voltage that messages could be 
> sent
> even with the station?batteries disconnected. The Aurora was visible as 
> far
> south as the Caribbean.
>
> See this link.
> http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/
>
>
> ?Bill AD5OL


No doubt some satellites would have been put out of commission at least 
temporarily, radio communications  would certainly have been disrupted, and 
maybe enough voltage was induced on telegraph lines to draw visible sparks, 
but I am doubtful of the details depicted in that story. Unlikely that any 
photos were taken and sound recording didn't exist.  The story has passed 
down word-of-mouth over the generations to become a legend, probably 
embellished and exaggerated along the way. The same kind of oral tradition 
that has brought us cultural legends in nearly every pre-literate 
traditional society.

Don k4kyv

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