{"id":5560,"date":"2013-02-04T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2013-02-04T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:56:09","slug":"wired-listen-to-a-solar-flare-drown-out-radio-communications-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/wired-listen-to-a-solar-flare-drown-out-radio-communications-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired: Listen to a Solar Flare Drown Out Radio Communications on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo: NASA via Wired)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: Wired<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Over the weekend,\u00a0a tiny spot on the sun erupted into a moderately sized solar flare that was particularly loud in radio waves. With the sound of a roaring wave, it completely drowned out radio communication all over the Earth between\u00a028 MHz and 21.1 MHz.<\/p>\n

The recording [found on this page<\/a>] comes from either\u00a0a short wave radio station or a Ham radio transmission, said amateur radio astronomer\u00a0Thomas Ashcraft<\/a>, who works\u00a0with NASA\u2019s\u00a0Radio JOVE project<\/a>. It\u2019s interesting to hear the voices get \u201cswallowed up as the solar wave passes through,\u201d he added in an e-mail to Wired.[…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article on\u00a0Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Wired) Over the weekend,\u00a0a tiny spot on the sun erupted into a moderately sized solar flare that was particularly loud in radio waves. With the sound of a roaring wave, it completely drowned out radio communication all over the Earth between\u00a028 MHz and 21.1 MHz. The recording [found on this page] comes from either\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[8,3,43],"tags":[809,808,1672,1671,946,612],"class_list":["post-5560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cme","tag-coronal-mass-ejections","tag-nasa","tag-solar-fla","tag-solar-flare","tag-wired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1rG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12637,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/x-class-solar-flare-causes-radio-blackout\/","url_meta":{"origin":5560,"position":0},"title":"X-class solar flare causes radio blackout","author":"Thomas","date":"March 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Discovery News) The sun has erupted with its first X-class solar flare of 2015, a not-so-subtle reminder that it can still muster the energy required to generate the most powerful class of solar explosion. 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