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02/14/2013 | Oklahoma Ham Helps Develop New Winter Weather App for NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), in partnership with the University of Oklahoma, has launched a free app called mPING with which users can anonymously report precipitation from their Apple or
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10/26/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
Good conditions should prevail for the CQ World Wide SSB DX Contest this weekend. A chance for solar flares has greatly diminished in the past few days, and the latest forecast has the planetary A index at a steady and quiet 5 for this weekend and beyond,
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08/09/2012 | NOAA Updates 2012 Hurricane Season Outlook
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has been “busy,” with six named storms since the season began June 1. In May 2012, NOAA forecasters originally indicated a 50 percent chance for a
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08/09/2011 | Solar Explosions Could Impact Earth
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is keeping an eye on a set of solar storms and explosions that could disrupt satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment here on Earth in the next few days. While activity had reportedly
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12/19/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot activity continued this week; new group 1035 emerged December 14, following group 1034 that appeared December 9. Daily sunspot numbers since December 9 through December 17 have been 13, 13, 13, 12, 14, 28, 38, 30 and 24. Solar flux values have bee
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12/08/2009 | Amateur Radio Quiz: From One End to the OtherAt the bottom of the solar cycle during the month of the winter solstice, there are two contests that span the limits of our MF/HF spectrum. The ARRL 160 Meter Contest ran last weekend and conditions were expected to be excellent. The other is the AR
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12/04/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Recent sunspot activity -- which ended on November 22 -- pushed up the moving average we've been tracking for several years. Because we have all the data for November, we now have the most recent 3-month average of daily sunspot numbers, which centers on
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11/13/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot region 1029 disappeared after October 30, but not because it faded away -- it was transiting over our Sun's western horizon on its trip around the back side. Six days after it was gone, a new region -- region 1030 -- appeared for several days, Nov
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