[time-nuts] Solar Storm Effects?

[ALAN MELIA]

>From the look of it to me it is a "non-event" it looks like it bounced off and didnt reconnect. there is little increase in the ring current i.e. the charge in the van Allen belt according to the Dst index 1500z today......yesterdays event was bigger from that point of view

Alan G3NYK


--- On Thu, 8/3/12, John Ackermann N8UR <jra at febo.com> wrote:

> From: John Ackermann N8UR <jra at febo.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Solar Storm Effects?
> To: jfor at quikus.com, "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 15:20
> On 3/8/2012 10:08 AM, J. Forster
> wrote:
> > The media is reporting a large solar storm and saying
> it will upset GPS
> > among other things.
> > 
> > Has anybody see any effects?
> 
> I won't be able to look at the data until I get home from
> work tonight, but last evening I started measuring the
> sawtooth-corrected output of a CNS2 clock vs. the PPS output
> of an Rb standard.  Wondering if I'll see any
> glitches... if so I'll report back here.
> 
> There was a major solar event in December, 2006 and at the
> time I was monitoring GPS signal strength.  I got a
> very noticeable glitch at the time the blast hit the earth:
> http://febo.com/pages/gps_solar_flare/
> 
> Unfortunately, I didn't have an appropriate PPS measurement
> going on at the time.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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