[TRCFR] Re: Radio blackout on 9th June at 21.35 UTC ?

Tito [email protected]
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:59:03 +0200


Tito ha escrito:

> I found this info at http://spaceweather.com/  web site.
>
> BLACKOUT: Radio astronomer Dick Flagg was monitoring the shortwave band
> between 19 and 27 MHz when the X-class flare of June 9th occurred. He
> recorded this 10-minute radio blackout
> http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod2003/10jun03/flagg1.jpg
>
> "As part of NASA's Radio Jove project we operate a radio spectrograph at
> the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College campus," he
> explains. "Normally there are many shortwave stations--horizontal lines
> in the readout above. The x-ray flare at 2135 UT ionized the lower
> layers of Earth's ionosphere causing absorption of all but the very
> strongest radio station signals."

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