[HoustonHam] Re: HoustonHAM Digest, Vol 49, Issue 6

Tue Aug 26 12:38:24 EDT 2008

1.Everybody tired of snow and ice - move to Texas!
2.Heck with HF - let' build more 2 meter repeaters!
3.Current temperature in my back yard - 100.6 F
4.Number of sunspots visible by naked eye - 0
5.See ya at the swimming hole!
73 AA7EJ

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Today's Topics:

   1. Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!! (Chris Boone)
   2. Re: Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!! (Brian K. Gaskamp)
   3. Re: Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!! (Mike (KA5CVH) Urich)
   4. RE: Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!! (Chris Boone)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:22:08 -0500
From: "Chris Boone" <cboone at earthlink.net>
Subject: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!
To: <SETXHam at yahoogroups.com>,	"'Amateur Radio in Houston TX
area'"
	<houstonham at mailman.qth.net>,	<houstonham at yahoogroups.com>,
	<houstonscan at yahoogroups.com>
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Solar Cycle 24 Canceled - Ham Radio Operators Furious!!

Story written: 1 April 2008

Released: 22 August 2008
Written by: Dr. Hugo S. Dere

Dayton, Ohio (IPP) - The next solar cycle was assigned the number 24 but has
been canceled by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Scientists were
able to predict that this cycle would have been 30% to 50% stronger than the
previous solar cycle and it would have started a year later than previously
thought.

Scientists have been unable to accurately predict the intensity of future
solar cycles until recent times. All of that changed recently when the
Predictive Flux-transport Model was developed and put into effect. This new
method is thought to be 98% accurate.

Dr. Povenmire Finootch of the Mount Palomar Astronomical Campus and the
senior legal representative of the IAU takes full responsibility for
canceling the next solar cycle and has a black eye to show for it. He
recently got into a scrap with the head of the North American Ham Radio
Association, Joe Raydideeo, over the canceling of solar cycle 24. Dr.
Finootch claims that the IAU has complete authority over anything related to
the visible as well as the invisible portions of the electromagnetic
spectrum.

Ham operators take advantage of the increase in solar electromagnetic
activity by bouncing radio signals off of the ionosphere to each other in
the form of radio waves which are transmitted via upper and lower sideband
and cw ( continuous wave or Morse code). When the solar cycle is in full
swing it is possible for a Ham operator in North America to talk to his
counterpart in New Zealand using a mere 5 watts. 

Dr. Povenmire Finootch admits that he has a black eye but that nevertheless
he had thoroughly throttled his opponent during a fist fight they had during
the Ham Operator's Convention (HOC) in Key West last week. The two had
become embroiled in a fierce argument over whether or not the IAU had any
business sticking its nose into the business of Ham operators and this
argument evolved into fisticuffs to the delight of nearby bar patrons.

Dr. Povenmire Finootch seemed to go over the edge when Raydideeo claimed
that Dr. Finootch would not know the the difference between Ohm's Law vs
Kepler's Law if it "bit him on the ass". Dr. Finootch replied,
"Neither
would you then!" Dr. Finootch did not realize that the Ham operator had a
well concealed "hair lip" under his moustache and the Ham operator
was
equally unaware that Dr. Finootch had a wooden eye. The Ham operator
responded by saying, "Woudn't I, Wouldn't I" to which Doctor
Finootch
replied, " Hair lip, hair lip!" And thus the fight was on!!

Some names and part of the story were changed to not protect the innocent
but to make it sound better J! Note the dateline of it...(Next year, they
need to put it OUT on the date written).

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:09:23 -0500
From: "Brian K. Gaskamp" <ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!
To: "Amateur Radio in Houston TX area"
<houstonham at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <9E5B445F0416435485E91DFAFEB068C0 at Briancomputer>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
	reply-type=original

I believe this is false due to the date it was written, April 1st.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Boone" <cboone at earthlink.net>
To: <SETXHam at yahoogroups.com>; "'Amateur Radio in Houston TX
area'" 
<houstonham at mailman.qth.net>; <houstonham at yahoogroups.com>; 
<houstonscan at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:22 AM
Subject: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!

>
> Solar Cycle 24 Canceled - Ham Radio Operators Furious!!
>
>
> Story written: 1 April 2008
>
> Released: 22 August 2008
> Written by: Dr. Hugo S. Dere
>
> Dayton, Ohio (IPP) - The next solar cycle was assigned the number 24 but 
> has
> been canceled by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Scientists 
> were
> able to predict that this cycle would have been 30% to 50% stronger than 
> the
> previous solar cycle and it would have started a year later than 
> previously
> thought.
>
> Scientists have been unable to accurately predict the intensity of future
> solar cycles until recent times. All of that changed recently when the
> Predictive Flux-transport Model was developed and put into effect. This 
> new
> method is thought to be 98% accurate.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch of the Mount Palomar Astronomical Campus and the
> senior legal representative of the IAU takes full responsibility for
> canceling the next solar cycle and has a black eye to show for it. He
> recently got into a scrap with the head of the North American Ham Radio
> Association, Joe Raydideeo, over the canceling of solar cycle 24. Dr.
> Finootch claims that the IAU has complete authority over anything related 
> to
> the visible as well as the invisible portions of the electromagnetic
> spectrum.
>
> Ham operators take advantage of the increase in solar electromagnetic
> activity by bouncing radio signals off of the ionosphere to each other in
> the form of radio waves which are transmitted via upper and lower sideband
> and cw ( continuous wave or Morse code). When the solar cycle is in full
> swing it is possible for a Ham operator in North America to talk to his
> counterpart in New Zealand using a mere 5 watts.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch admits that he has a black eye but that 
> nevertheless
> he had thoroughly throttled his opponent during a fist fight they had 
> during
> the Ham Operator's Convention (HOC) in Key West last week. The two had
> become embroiled in a fierce argument over whether or not the IAU had any
> business sticking its nose into the business of Ham operators and this
> argument evolved into fisticuffs to the delight of nearby bar patrons.
>
> Dr. Povenmire Finootch seemed to go over the edge when Raydideeo claimed
> that Dr. Finootch would not know the the difference between Ohm's Law
vs
> Kepler's Law if it "bit him on the ass". Dr. Finootch
replied, "Neither
> would you then!" Dr. Finootch did not realize that the Ham operator
had a
> well concealed "hair lip" under his moustache and the Ham
operator was
> equally unaware that Dr. Finootch had a wooden eye. The Ham operator
> responded by saying, "Woudn't I, Wouldn't I" to which
Doctor Finootch
> replied, " Hair lip, hair lip!" And thus the fight was on!!
>
>
>
>
>
> Some names and part of the story were changed to not protect the innocent
> but to make it sound better J! Note the dateline of it...(Next year, they
> need to put it OUT on the date written).
>
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:17:47 -0500
From: "Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" <ka5cvh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!
To: "Amateur Radio in Houston TX area"
<houstonham at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID:
	<15b2c6c70808251417v79e36637gb74f0a2def1304f9 at mail.gmail.com>
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You think ? ? ?

-- 
Mike Urich, KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com

http://bordermovie.com
http://drugwarsthemovie.com

Do you remember what happened to Doctor Zhivago's house?

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:01:18 -0500
From: "Chris Boone" <cboone at earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!
To: "'Amateur Radio in Houston TX area'"
<houstonham at mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <029001c90717$3fa10810$bee31830$@net>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="UTF-8"

-----Original Message-----
From: houstonham-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:houstonham-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike (KA5CVH) Urich
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:18 PM
To: Amateur Radio in Houston TX area
Subject: Re: [HoustonHam] Uh ohhhh, NOT good news!!

You think ? ? 
-- 
Mike Urich, KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com

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Mike, where’s Bugs Bunny when you need him?? (WWWEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL, COULD
BE!!! :)

BUT THIS is not fake....and it makes you think! Wont be able to send the pics
via the Mailman list...Check out QRZ.com for this article with pics!

However, they have their facts somewhat backward…the sunspots ARE cooler
areas of the sun…so less sunspots means less cooling of the sun and constant
temperatures all over it, NOT a cooling of the Sun. Another twist to the global
warming issue? Time will tell (but don’t tell the Alaskan polar bears that the
earth is cooling….less ice in the Arctic has had polar bears swimming as much
as 30 miles offshore looking for seals (meals!)…If the glaciers were COLD
instead of heating up, that would mean MORE ice and less melting…so how come
it’s the reversed???) 

BTW if anyone knew Charlie LeBlanc of Crown Electric in Beaumont, (he was a ham
but let his ticket lapse..so did his ex-wife, Martha; CANT recall their calls
BUT I think they had RARE WB5X—calls issued by mistake), he passed away
suddenly Thursday. I knew Charlie as a ham and also dealt with him as my
electrical contractor. He did a lot of electrical work for GSU/Entergy on the
800MHz trunk system….and other work. He WILL be missed!

Chris
WB5ITT
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Following 'Hotly' or should we say 'Coolly' on the
"Climate Change Fiasco" is the news that the Sun may be entering a
prolonged Sunspot Low period of inactivity. Solar scientists universally agree
with the evidence, that Our Sun may be entering the phase of another
'Maunder Minimum'. This would herald the onset of an 18th Century like
mini Ice-Age.
Following the end of the Sun's most active period in over 11,000 years, the
last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998
leveled out and are now plummeting.
Forecasts of a sharp cooling trend are backed by the UK's Armagh
Observatory, which has been observing solar activity for over 200 years.
The observatory notes that solar cycles 21 and 22, which were characterized by
being short and intense in their activity, led to the natural global warming
observed in the 80's and 90's. "Cycle 23, which hasn't finished
yet, looks like it will be long (at least 12 to 13 years) and cycle 24, which
has still to start, looks like it will be exceptionally weak," writes one
observatory scientist.

"Based on the past Armagh measurements, this suggests that over the next
two decades, global temperatures may fall by about 2 degrees C — that is, to a
level lower than any we have seen in the last 100 years...."Temperatures
have already fallen by about 0.5 degrees C over the past 12 months and, if this
is only the start of it, it would be a serious concern," concludes David
Watt. Belfast Telegraph, 14 Aug.

China recently experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast
America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in
decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost
daily basis. The British summer has also left many yearning for global warming,
with temperatures in June and July rarely struggling to get over 16 degrees and
on one occasion even dropping as low as 9 degrees in the middle of the
afternoon.

"Summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has
dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade," reports the
Chicago Tribune. "There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at
Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest
90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here
since 1930."

The suspected reason? Sunspot activity has dwindled. There have only been a
handful of days in the past two months where any sunspot activity has been
observed and over 400 spotless days have been recorded in the current solar
cycle.
"The sun’s surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years,
and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the
sun’s 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to
the Little Ice Age of the 17th century," reports one science blog.

Magnetic imaging of Sunspot Activity for 7 Aug 2008

Magnetic imaging of Sunspot Activity for 10 Aug 2005

Source: The Precision Photometric Solar Telescope
http://lasp.colorado.edu/pspt_access/

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