Blip! Over he goes!

[Radio]

Our star has magneticly flipped over.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/video-sun-has-flipped-upside-down-as-new-magnetic-cycle-begins-9029378.html

Not sure exactly how the pagans would celebrate such a thing, but we at ORR.net are likely to turn on a radio and have a listen.

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[NN5I]

Yeah, it does that. It's an oscillator, with a frequency of about .00000144 Hz. Wavelength is about 22 light-years.

Not a very good oscillator, either -- lots of phase noise.

[Herk7769]

The sun is not the only "magnetic pole flipper."

The earth's magnetic poles also flip, but the period is much longer.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/video-sun-has-flipped-upside-down-as-new-magnetic-cycle-begins-9029378.html

Navy mapping of the Atlantic sea floor shows the same phenomenon happens to the earth, but on a much longer time scale.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html

http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/magnetism.htm

According to the historic record the "event" is several thousand years overdue; BUT


The magnetic north pole is moving now and the rate of change is accelerating. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html

[Radio]

The magnetic north pole is moving now and the rate of change is accelerating. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html





Oh boy! I wonder what THAT is going to do to HF propagation!