So are you ready for the Solar Storms next year?

KDOG3 · Apr 18, 2006

I was watching a show on the discovery channel the other day about solar storms/flares and it talked about how the severity is on an 11 year cycle and the next "peak" is next year. It went on to show how just one bad flare up could knock out power for possibly the whole planet! And it may take months to get it back up and running. It would be like a super-mega EMP. Yikes! I better stock up on batteries!

nakahoshi · Apr 18, 2006

I watched this scary show too, but i thought i heard the year 2011, not every 11 years. I might be mistaken though, it could be next year... yikes... all those rechargable batteries wont do me much good eh? :thumbsdow
-bobby

Radio · Apr 18, 2006

It is every Eleven years approximately but next year is not the peak, we are only a couple of years post trough. Still about five more years to go to peak. Wanna know about the Solar Cylce? Ask a Ham, LOL

Jamrock · Apr 18, 2006

Was that the "Discovery Channel's Perfect Disaster : Solar Storm"?

I just now seen that DVD on our Coffee table,My Bro just ripped it & Burned it on DVD.

Hmmm,I better go watch it,sounds Crazy!!:candle:

LaserFreak · Apr 18, 2006

I'll be wating with my radio warmed up and an emergency power supply...should make for some nice skip.

Sub_Umbra · Apr 18, 2006

The 11 year cycle is right most of the time. In the early 90s there was a double peak. I was able to DX NX direct from Dubai, UAE during Desert Storm on a Sony portable from the Gulf Coast of the US.

Walt175 · Apr 18, 2006

Dammit! I was about to dust off my 6M gear!! I need to finish my VUCC.

The_LED_Museum · Apr 18, 2006

I thought they said the next "solar maximum" was to occur in 2011.

KC2IXE · Apr 19, 2006

KDOG3 said:
...snip... severity is on an 11 year cycle and the next "peak" is next year. ...snip...

Older show - we are at/near the BOTTOM right now. - Curve is not a sine wayve - numbers are at/close to 0 most days - and they should not start rising till late NEXT year - figure 5-6 years till the next peak

As I type this, The "Effective Sun Spot NUmber" is 17, A=6 and K=0

Here is what last weeks ARRL solar report had to say

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/04/13/100/?nc=1

PhotonBoy · Apr 19, 2006

NASA - Solar Storm Warning

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm?list862664

TORCH_BOY · Apr 19, 2006

Close, In about Five years or so I will have to warm up some Valves, tune up and fire up on the HF bands

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