{"id":62282,"date":"2025-03-02T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62282"},"modified":"2025-03-02T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:04:17","slug":"solar-ham-website-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/solar-ham-website-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Ham Website News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A website I have used (and supported) regularly for the last 18 years is currently off-line, taking, according to the site’s founder, “an extended break” for the foreseeable future. The SolarHam.com<\/a> site, operated by Kevin Gibeau, VE3EN, has been an amazing resource for solar weather news for amateur radio folks, astronomers, and, I suspect, hobbyists and professionals from many fields.<\/p>\n

I, like many others, will miss the site, and wish Kevin well, and look for his (hopefully soon!) return.<\/p>\n

Here is the note posted today on the Solar Ham Space Weather Website:<\/p>\n

After 19 years SolarHam will be taking an extended break. The current world events and life in general has made me want to refocus my attention on what matters most, my daughter, my family and my health. Thank you all for the support over the past two decades, I really cannot thank you enough. Space Weather will always remain a passion of mine, but as of right now my heart is not fully committed and that is not fair to you my followers. I hope to return once I feel well enough. Sorry for the sudden departure and I hope you understand.
\nKevin (SolarHam).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert, K4PKM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A website I have used (and supported) regularly for the last 18 years is currently off-line, taking, according to the site’s founder, “an extended break” for the foreseeable future. The SolarHam.com site, operated by Kevin Gibeau, VE3EN, has been an amazing resource for solar weather news for amateur radio folks, astronomers, and, I suspect, hobbyists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":62283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4102,34,10725,4107],"class_list":["post-62282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ham-radio","tag-shortwave","tag-solar-news","tag-space-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Solar-Ham.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gcy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45447,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/nasa-science-live-presents-our-next-solar-cycle\/","url_meta":{"origin":62282,"position":0},"title":"NASA Science Live presents “Our Next Solar Cycle”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans, who writes: On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Science at NASA had a presentation on the next solar cycle predictions. 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