Just Sharing This Sun pop's a big one.

Terryl

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OpenBox X5 on a 1 meter motorized dish.
And now a 10 foot "C" band dish.

Custom built PC
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Deep in the Boonies in the central Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Well it looks like the Sun is finally waking up, it popped a big "X" class flare a few days ago and it's still going, some of you in the North may have some nice "Northern Lights" to view for a few nights.

Radio communications on some bands has been affected.

GOES Proton Flux | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

We will be OK unless the green plot goes above the dotted line.
 

Lazarus

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Much else.
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North York Moors
And some folk worry about burning a few billion tonnes of fossil fuels here on Earth.

No sense of proportion.
 
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