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42OhmsPA said:
It's all a bit over my head but I would say the outages were more than likely from a cyber attack / hack of some sort.
Apparently only the US was affected...

I have been paying a fair amount of attention to discussions in the space weather forum, most of the time I feel like I'm reading posts from some of the experts here 😂.
I've seen suspiciousobservers mentioned there as more of a fear mongering channel.

This one talks about the recent issue.

From what I gather region 3950 is active and there are at least 2 more incoming regions that should be interesting.
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Perhaps the cyber attackers have found the kryptonite of a dozen different systems simultaneously. Don't look to me for expertise. I lose my readers atop my head. 🤓
 
HighDesertOffgrid said:
Perhaps the cyber attackers have found the kryptonite of a dozen different systems simultaneously. Don't look to me for expertise. I lose my readers atop my head. 🤓
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If there was a backbone that those systems shared I suppose it could be possible.
It would be quite the coincidence they happened at the same time but it would also be an excellent strategy for an attack.
Cyber have attacks have been projected on the tunnel vision recently as well.

Regardless I think I'll be turning my grid breaker off for the season
 
I wonder if it was something like what happened here in Australia just before christmas???
The second biggest telco in Australia (Optus) lost massive parts of its network for over half a day (and some areas were over a full day before services were re-established) after a software update went horribly wrong in their routing system- it affected cell phones, land lines the lot...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...-nationwide-outage-software-upgrade/103099902

Worse it seriously affected emergency services in many areas, leaving police, firies and ambos without radio or cell phones- basically without any forms of communications except members personal phones IF they were on a different network...

(their comms were 'centralised' a while back to save money, so like in NSW, all radio communications went from the local repeaters to the comms center in Newcastle, and back to the repeater- when the network went down, no radio, and no phones either...)

Basically the :poop: hit the rotary air circulating device...
 
Bop said:
I wonder if it was something like what happened here in Australia just before christmas???
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The US has satellite systems in place that monitor space weather in real-time. You could access historical data to see if there were any events near that date.
SuspiciousObservers uploads daily and would also have historic info.
 
42OhmsPA said:
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Literally the day the above mentioned HF propagation blackout was forecasted the opposite occurred.

There is an 11 year sunspot cycle which should peak this year or next. It produces fantastic HF radio propagation that we greatly look forward to and enjoy. Having been first licensed in 1972 this will not be my first time to experience it and conditions have been fantastic lately.

Ham radio has worldwide communication competitions each year and last weekend was a big one. These world class amateurs, who have won a number of global competitions, say last weekend had the best :

 
HighDesertOffgrid said:
The US has satellite systems in place that monitor space weather in real-time. You could access historical data to see if there were any events near that date.
SuspiciousObservers uploads daily and would also have historic info.
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Hams watch the Solar Flux, the A index, and the K index. Described here a couple of cycles ago :


Basically we want the flux as high as possible with the A and K indices as low as possible.

Up to date (every three hours) near real time information can be found here, in the left margin, along with a widget people can put on their website with that data :

HF Propagation and Solar-Terrestrial Data Website

Free solar-terrestrial data displayed on your web page or site, updated every 3-hours. Also contains solar and radio propagation information applicable to ham radio including solar conditions, space conditions, online propagation tool, online SN to SFI/SFI to SN conversion tool, online...
www.hamqsl.com www.hamqsl.com

A current image of the sun is also provided in the left margin so you can see current coronal mass ejections with sunspot development and travel.
 
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