[time-nuts] Solar flare alert

Alan Melia alan.melia at btinternet.com
Sat Jul 14 15:35:08 UTC 2012


Joe, Cellphone frequencies are little affected by ionospheric effects, so I 
would be surprised if that was an effect though GPS is a different matter, 
or sat-phone.

Alan
G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Gray" <jgray at zianet.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
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Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Solar flare alert


>I read about it yesterday. I suspect that we may already be seeing
> some radio interference. At work this afternoon, my cell phone lost
> signal entirely a few times. Although I don't get a great signal at
> work, it has never lost signal completely before.
>
> Joe Gray
> W5JG
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There was a blurb on the news tonight about a big honkin' solar flare 
>> that is due to arrive around 6:00 AM tomorrow morning.   It's supposed to 
>> be strong enough to produce auroras visible as far south as the Gulf of 
>> Mexico and to mess up GPS...
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