Manic Monday

[Blue Ox2]

So, how do ya'll think radio activity will be during the Eclipse hours Monday?

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[MDYoungblood]

Hmm, good question and I don't have an answer since I have only experienced particle eclipses. Here is a site that when you add your zip code it will show you what the eclipse will look like at that location,, pretty cool animation.

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Greg

[Blue Ox2]

Cool, pretty sure what it will look like. I'm gonna find out how the radio transmissions are effected.

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[Mtn Lynx]

If only there were conditions here, have been dismal for couple weeks.

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[Blue Ox2]

Here is a published list of events going on during the Eclipse.

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mike

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[Blue Ox2]

Some of the effects, kinda as I thought, are explained as:

"We know from past experience that a total eclipse of the Sun does have a big impact on ionospheric radio propagation. The eclipse duration will be long enough for those separated electrons and ions to find each other again — a process called recombination — and we’ll have nighttime propagation.

Bending on the higher frequency bands will fade and the signals will zip off into space — those bands will “close” to long-distance propagation. Simultaneously, absorption at the lower frequency bands will disappear and those bands will “open.” At the end of the eclipse, the reverse happens, and aside from some very confused electrons, things will be back to whatever normal conditions were before the eclipse."

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE AND HAM RADIO
By H. Ward Silver


Nuts & Volts Magazine
August 2017

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[MDYoungblood]

Are we all set for the big event?

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Greg

[Blue Ox2]

So much for that.

Praise the Lord, life goes on.

73

Mike

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[MDYoungblood]

Wasn't much in the excitement department here, at the aperture it started raining.

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Greg

[Blue Ox2]

yes, this evening, after 17:00, AM skip was strong from FL, GA, KY. I'll be checking in again after 19:00
and stay tuned in till after sun down.

Don't think there is much news to look forward to.

73

Mike

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