[SixClub] radiation storm in progress

Tom Peterson tom at galesvillefiredepartment.org
Mon Jan 23 16:01:24 EST 2012


http://spaceweather.com/ is reporting
> *RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: * Solar protons accelerated by this 
> morning's M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA 
> scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3 
> <http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/index.html#SolarRadiationStorms>, 
> which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers 
> onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio 
> communications

Might be kind of interesting to move some JT-65 capable stations to 6M 
and see what kind of paths open over the next 24-48 hours.


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