[64470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOAA warning for rf communications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Mathews)
Fri Oct 24 09:44:31 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 03:43:51 -1000 (HST)
From: Robert Mathews <mathews@hawaii.edu>
In-reply-to: <3F98B6FC.9475B7B@centergate.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Robert Mathews <mathews@HAWAII.EDU>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:22:04 -0700
> From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
> To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
> Subject: NOAA warning for rf communications
>
>
> I'm surprised that there has been no warning or discussion on NANOG...
>
> There is a high likelihood that things like 802.11, licensed and
> unlicensed microwave links, and certainly satellite links will sustain
> interference over the next few days. I assume that everyone on the list
> is both aware, and prepared ;-)
>
> Oh, perhaps an alternative to paging or cellphone notifications to
> support folks is a good idea ;-)
>
> http://www.astrobiology.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12850
>
> The NOAA links seem saturated... http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
> --
> Rodney Joffe
> CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
> http://www.centergate.com
> "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)
Rodney, All:
See:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:32:10 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Crowe - ASTRONOMY
Subject: Large sunspot!!
To: Robert Mathews - NATLSEC
>There's a very large spot group on the sun today. Yesterday it
>covered 0.17% of the visible disk; it's at least no smaller today.
>
>A new full-disk image is at
>http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/MWLT/Today/latest.jpg
>
>The spot group is magnetically quite complex, has produced several
>large flares since sunday, and is easily resolvable with the naked eye
>(except, of course, the sun is too bright to look at...)
>--
>
>--Don Mickey <mickey@ifa.hawaii.edu>
If interested, there are more links that people can follow through UH - Institute For
Astronomy's Website.
Regards,
Robert.
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