{"id":36928,"date":"2019-04-15T04:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36928"},"modified":"2019-04-15T05:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:03:02","slug":"big-sunspost-produces-ocean-surf-sounds-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/big-sunspost-produces-ocean-surf-sounds-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Sunspot Produces \u201cOcean Surf\u201d Sounds on Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though sunspots have been rare this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2019\/15apr19\/hmi1898.gif\">Sunspot AR2738<\/a> has been producing bursts which have been heard as radio static \u2013 that sounds like \u201cocean surf\u201d \u2013 on shortwave.<\/p>\n<p>This was posted early this morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">spaceweather.com<\/a> \u2013 along with a recording:<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have a shortwave radio, you might have heard some unusual sounds this week. Big sunspot AR2738 is producing strong bursts of radio static. &#8220;They sound like ocean surf,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/artist-turned-astronomer-tracks-the-galaxy-s-glowing-traveling-orbs\/article_a17666f9-a0f2-5679-97a0-07dde7ae00ed.html\">Thomas Ashcraft<\/a>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2019\/13apr19\/Sun_TypeIII_Ap132019_Ashcraft_01.mp3\">recorded this specimen<\/a> on April 13th using an amateur radio telescope in New Mexico:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2019\/14apr19\/dynamicspectrum_strip.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Credit: Observation of Thomas Ashcroft via Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2019\/04\/15\/big-sunspot-produces-ocean-surf-sounds\/\">Spaceweather.com Archive<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n<p>Guest Post by Troy Riedel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though sunspots have been rare this year, Sunspot AR2738 has been producing bursts which have been heard as radio static \u2013 that sounds like \u201cocean surf\u201d \u2013 on shortwave. This was posted early this morning at spaceweather.com \u2013 along with a recording: If you have a shortwave radio, you might have heard some unusual sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[581,4107,4581],"class_list":["post-36928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-radio-astronomy","tag-space-weather","tag-troy-riedel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9BC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/active-sunspot-returns\/","url_meta":{"origin":36928,"position":0},"title":"Active sunspot returns","author":"Thomas","date":"May 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Spaceweather via Troy Riedel) This weekend, old sunspot AR2738 is returning from a two-week trip around the farside of the sun. 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