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Might be time to bust out my baofeng and see if I can't hear some anomalous distances on VHF through tropospheric ducting...
I hope you do it and report back! Comet 3I/ATLAS might be trying to communicate!
Lol, that's not how tropospheric ducting works. If a comet was communicating with the VHF band it'd be likely doing it by way of a satellite relay -- or just with a wild amount of power. VHF, unlike HF, doesn't typically bounce off the ionosphere, but goes right through it. That changes thanks to the charge imparted upon it by the aurora, when suddenly things start reflecting. It knocks out a lot of the HF bandwidth which is something of a bummer but it does give us some playful chaos in the VHF frequencies.
There are many things I do not know! This all seems interesting though 🤔
I got turned back onto ham radio by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezuv34xe4nztnyv4mz7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezuampw33kstcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprfmhxue69uhhxarjvee8jtn0wpjku6r0danxgtnwdshsqg8r4m763pe99fevac6h35em9hxep6072wuta4350m67ymm5yyddhv999sgu on one of nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyd8wumn8ghj7um9dejxjapwdehhxenvv9ex2tnrdakj7qgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejg93ymdp 's shows.got my technician license in some very brief studying, and am being slower abojt getting my General license, but plan to. Https://hamstudy.org and https://hambook.org are great free resources.
It does tend to turn people into solar meteorologists due to how much the sun's interplay with the ionosphere affects propagation for HF bands.
Not needing to rely on infrastructure beyond what you deploy is a pretty sweet way to take a degree of sovereignty over your comms. And yea, while not common, you can sejd Bitcoin over radio -- though I imagine Cashu would be a lot easier and more practical. LF has Nostr set off on radio as well with his Hamstr project.
This is super cool thank you for sharing! I've been wanting to learn more about ham radio and it's interesting that my interest in solar storms might come in handy to that pursuit! 🥰
There’s now growing evidence - and strong correlation - between solar storms and large (mag 6.5+) earth quakes.
It’s been wild watching the geophysicists go nuts over this and all of the activity currently happening in space.
It’s all connected.
Everything is all connected! And don't we all feel something is about to happen? 🤔 These types of solar cycles also correlate to big leaps in human development historically like domesticating fire or agriculture. I'm hoping we develop super powers this time! 🤞😁🤞