Did not mean to offend. just playing around. I make my living on a computer. I just have a strange sense of humor. Playing off all the end of the world soothsayers.
solar maxiumum is this comming year maybe the Aztecs were on to something I still think it would be grand to have a storm big enough to knock the grid down for a few months. I spend my life (work and hobbies) completely connected to the web. A unconnected life sounds very refreshing. I have plenty of food plenty of wood plenty of water and plenty of ammo. We would be good for several months
I've been getting some pretty weird AM skip lately. Detroit and Chicago stations in Alabama, got a Boston station in Kentucky...
As a child I recall one evening in the car with my mother and we picked up a station that sounded as though they were speaking some sort of "oriental" language. That was freaky because it was obviously not from this continent. If only we could find a way to control and use these phenomena.Amateurs call AM MW (medium wave) and it often propagates like shortwave. When things get extreme, it's not a big thing. Get a clear channel and the right time of day, you can get one all over the continent. I've had TV channels from different time zones, UHF from different states with tropospheric ducting. The stuff that's really freaky is when you get ionospheric propagation up to over 50MHz, and you can go intercontinental with 6M. Good times to recruit new hams, I tell ya.
Amateurs call AM MW (medium wave) and it often propagates like shortwave. When things get extreme, it's not a big thing. Get a clear channel and the right time of day, you can get one all over the continent. I've had TV channels from different time zones, UHF from different states with tropospheric ducting. The stuff that's really freaky is when you get ionospheric propagation up to over 50MHz, and you can go intercontinental with 6M. Good times to recruit new hams, I tell ya.
I remember one day this year (can't remember the month), where ducting was happening and you could pickup people from all over the states on 2m. The local repeater was going crazy with people making contacts.
That was a great day to listen in.