[Elecraft] AstroAlert: Makings of a Super-Region - A Potentially Stormy Future

Tue Jul 23 22:44:00 2002

Hi Folks:

If you begin to think your HF rig has died and that the bands just COULDN'T 
be THIS DEAD (for the next WEEK!), the following may help to explain why.

73,

Tom Hammond   N0SS

ps

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                              A s t r o  A l e r t
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                           Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
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                                  23 July 2002

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MAKINGS OF A SUPER-REGION - A POTENTIALLY STORMY FUTURE

      The sunspot complex believed to be responsible for the X-class solar
flare of 21 July rotated fully into view today and announced its arrival by
spawning a spectacularly powerful class X4.8 solar flare. This significant
flaring region has the potential to produce substantial effects at the Earth
over the next two weeks if it can hold itself together that long.

      For the complete story, please visit:
http://www.spacew.com/astroalert.html.

      There are too many illustrations required in this alert to present
adequately through this e-mail. Please refer to the link above for details.

      This presumed proton flare produced a massive Moreton Wave and a high
velocity partial halo coronal mass ejection (images of this activity are
included on the web site).

      The next two weeks may see more "fire in the sky" than we have in the
last 10 years if the spot complex continues to pump out activity at the
furious rate that it is presumed to have produced over the last week.

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