madmalloy

I monitor S0 every morning for a good global weather report.

jervybingly

The eleven-year sunspot cycle affects radio communications drastically, but it hasn't been noticeable for about the last fifty years, as far as radio communication goes anyway. In the early 1960s an amateur radio operator with a hundred watt transmitter—on the right fequencies— could be picked up around the world, but not today.

Sullysq

And still most cosmologists fail to recognize the influence of electricity on and from our sun, in our own solar neighborhood and across the universe. Everything is just gravity driven with them.

jervybingly

I was a young ham operator in the sixties and the shortwave bands were burning up with activity. Now I only have a good shortwave receiver, but even the amateur bands are mostly dead at the frequencies I used to enjoy: 15 meter and 20 meter bands.