[Outages] GPS Receiver Issues?

[Mike Lyon]

Interesting read. Thanks Fergie.

-Mike


On 12/7/06, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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> - -- "Fergie" <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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> >-- Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I don't know a thing abt solar events, but the graphs on that page
> >>suggest that something out of the ordinary is happening right now (see
> >>the Proton Flux graph).  Very interesting.
> >>
> >
> >Although the Sun is just past its low-point in an 11-year cycle of
> >activity:
> >
> >http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061205_solar_flare.html
> >
>
> Interestingly enough, this just popped up my my radar.
>
> Via UPI.
>
> [snip]
>
> Russian scientists warned Wednesday that U.S. and other satellites could be
> damaged by a new wave of intense solar flares.
>
> Russia's geophysical forecast center said in a statement reported by the
> RIA Novosti news agency that it predicted "powerful solar flares, vast
> explosions in the sun's atmosphere around sunspots, to occur in the near
> future."
>
> "Solar flares can expel billion-ton clouds of electrified gas or plasma
> into space at a speed of 1 million miles per hour. Eruptions from the sun
> can damage satellites and disrupt electrical and communications systems on
> Earth, RIA Novosti said.
>
> "An X9 solar flare was registered last Tuesday. Over 30 years of regular
> X-ray observations of the sun, only about 25 powerful flares have been
> registered, and they had never previously been observed in the solar
> minimum [the lowest point of the sun's 11-year activity cycle]. This is
> surprising, because normally such flares occur at the peak of the sun's
> activity," the center said according to the RIA Novosti report.
>
> [snip]
>
> Link:
> http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061206-110126-1426r
>
> - - ferg
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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