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HighDesertOffgrid said:
Are you maybe... just a tid bit... concerned yet?
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ATT says the outage was due to an error in coding, "Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not any cuber attack"
 
Q-Dog said:
ATT says the outage was due to an error in coding, "Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not any cuber attack"
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Perhaps. Are you aware of any other effected networks?
 
Cricket Wireless was down, but they run on the ATT network. Some reports of T Mobile outages now being attributed to trying to connect to the ATT network. That's all I have heard.
 
HighDesertOffgrid said:
There were 3 flares yesterday. The last one even took out the GOES 16 satellite for awhile.
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This is my third time watching a Solar Cycle go through it's maximum and watching what happens.
Let me give you a piece of friendly advice to ease your mind.
Stop watching this idiots YouTube channel. He is feeding you half truths in order to make spectacular stories and get more viewers.

Yes a X6.3 went off yesterday but so what, we had a bigger one in 2017 and this one had no CME so it was never going to do any damage. These are the kinds of major details your YouTube friend leaves out! The previous Flare that got you in a Panic in the first video was not even directed towards Earth, so that one was never a danger to us and I doubt it was responsible for any Cell phones going down etc. Your YouTube friend says that Everything from AT&T Cell service to retail Stores and even StarLink went down.
Well I did not hear about anything other than cell service but I do know that AT&T controls a big chunk of the Internet backbone and almost all Cell phone towers are connected to one another over the Internet and even StarLinks Down link Terminals are connected to AT&T and others Fiber links all over the country. So if AT&T has problems then yes phones will go down, some Banks / Stores will go down and even parts of Starlink will go down.

I Suggest you double check his Videos using something a bit more reliable like this page
https://www.solarham.net/index.htm

And big reach out to the other Ham Operators on here, it's been a blast working Dx.
10m is open until late in the evening. This is not the best Band conditions I have seen but it's getting dam close. The Magic Band is opening up some days but I never seem to be at home on the right days / times 😕
 
robby said:
Stop watching this idiots YouTube channel. He is feeding you half truths in order to make spectacular stories and get more viewers.
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Perhaps you can point out some of the half truths to support your friendly advice.

robby said:
The previous Flare that got you in a Panic in the first video was not even directed towards Earth,
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I never panic. The post was about a near miss. Not sure how you missed that major point.
robby said:
we had a bigger one in 2017 and this one had no CME so it was never going to do any damage.
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And yet it did cause disruptions which are still being reported.
robby said:
And big reach out to the other Ham Operators on here, it's been a blast working Dx.
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I know flares give you hams wood. 🤣 The biggest naysayers here are all hams. You experience with minor cycle solar events may give you a false sense of security. Taking a bath doesn't make you an Olympic swimmer.
 
HighDesertOffgrid said:
And yet it did cause disruptions which are still being reported.
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You mean reports like this:
A fiery flash on the sun's surface 93m miles away that knocked out some radio communication on Earth for a short time on Thursday
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Because you don't follow this stuff regularly over decades of time then you probably don't know that Solar Activity Knocks out Radio Communications all the time. We have had several radio blackouts over the last 12 months but they only affect certain portions of the Radio Bands.
 
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robby said:
I already did. The X6.3 Flare had no CME so it was never a Danger!
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Which was stated verbatim. So where is the half truth? What do you define as danger?
EMS communications in AZ went down as well. Nasa lost contact with the Odysseus craft as it was touching down. Nothing to see here. Move along. 🤷‍♂️
 
HighDesertOffgrid said:
Which was stated verbatim. So where is the half truth? What do you define as danger?
EMS communications in AZ went down as well. Nasa lost contact with the Odysseus craft as it was touching down. Nothing to see here. Move along. 🤷‍♂️
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The fact that the Video used an X6.3 Flare as the Starting point when it knew it had no CME was a clear indicator that he is baiting you to watch it. This was not news worthy!
Clear Danger is when you have a huge Flare over X10 with a massive CME Earth directed. The 1989 Canadian Flare was an X15 and we survived that one with minor damage.
The Key point is the CME and the chances of one going off and heading straight into Earths orbit is Slim.
The second point is that when a Flare goes off the CME will not hit Earth for days, so you will have plenty of warning time to prepare.

Lastly the Odysseus craft contact issue was not Flare related, it was related to the crafts laser Navigation system failing. They had to use one of the onboard NASA experimental packages Laser system to supplement the crafts system and then patch the code to implement it.

And Yes Ham Radio guys love Solar activity. We don't like a quiet Sun, it's not good for business 🍻
 
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robby said:
Because you don't follow this stuff regularly over decades of time then you probably don't know that Solar Activity Knocks out Radio Communications all the time.
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You are partially correct. I have had only mild interest in space weather since 2013 or so. *I am aware of regular radio disruptions.* Understanding how much exponential loss has occurred in the earth's geomagnetic field has my attention. I'm sure you understand the weaker our protection from the sun, the more effect mild flares and CMEs has. Is this something you have been aware of for decades as well?
 
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HighDesertOffgrid said:
You are partially correct. I have had only mild interest in space weather since 2013 or so. *I am aware of regular radio disruptions.* Understanding how much exponential loss has occurred in the earth's geomagnetic field has my attention. I'm sure you understand the weaker our protection from the sun, the more effect mild flares and CMEs has. Is this something you have been aware of for decades as well?
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You may be right about that but we have no idea what is really happening with the Earths Magnetic field. All we know is that Animal and Plant life on the Planet seems to have survived multiple pole flipping events without a die off event.
As for computers, satellites, power lines, etc. we will adapt if it starts to become a long term problem.
Humans are very skilled at getting ourselves out of problems when our butts are on the line!
 
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