exactly how do you look back over your life as well as divide it up? perhaps by decades, cultural moments, or geopolitical events. For radio amateurs with older callsigns there’s a temptation to do so by solar cycles, as the approximately 11-year period of the Sun’s activity had a big impact on radio propagation with the fee it produces in the upper atmosphere. We’re now in solar cycle 25, numbered considering that the 18th century when the science of solar observation began, as well as as never before we’re surrounded by info from professionals such as [Dr. Tamitha Skov], the so-called [Space weather condition Woman]. When she states something is on the method we listen, so a recent Tweet predicting a direct hit from a solar storm with a great probability of auroras in lower latitudes is extremely much worth sharing.
We need to prolong our commiserations to visitors in equatorial climes as well as ever with the lower half of the USA, southern Europe, the middle East, India, Japan, as well as China. You won’t see the aurora we’ll catch in Europe together with our buddies in new Zealand, Canada, Russia, as well as northern USA. however even then to those of us at moderate latitudes an aurora is a quite unusual event, so we’re expecting remove skies on the 2nd of February as well as would recommend you to look out as well if you’re in the likely zone even if they won’t be rather as excellent as those in our header picture. on the other hand radio amateurs all over don’t have to see quite lights in the sky to reap the benefits in terms of propagation, so delighted DX hunting! The Tweet is embedded below the break, so you can play the timeline for yourselves.
Header image: united states Air Force, senior Airman Joshua Strang, Public domain.