The Solar Cycle

This is a good explanation of how the Sun and solar cycle works. It's a bit technical, but if you have looked at our previous articles on the subject you should be able to understand some of it. The podcast can be found at
http://sortingoutscience.net/2007/12/22/episode_15_--_the_solar_cycle/

Solar Cycle 24

Confusing Sun - Will Solar Cycle 24 Be Intense?

First Sunspot of Cycle 24

Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle

Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago," says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He and colleague Robert Wilson presented this conclusion last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Read more at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/21dec_cycle24.htm

Solar Cycle 24 Has Started

Cycle 24 Here, Experts Say (Jan 7, 2008) -- With the appearance of Sunspot 981 -- a high-latitude, reversed polarity sunspot -- on Friday, January 4, experts at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that Cycle 24 is now here. "This sunspot is like the first robin of spring," said solar physicist Douglas Biesecker of the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), part of NOAA. "In this case, it's an early omen of solar storms that will gradually increase over the next few years." Read the rest of the story here http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/01/07/100/?nc=1

DX Tuners

http://www.dxtuners.com is a free and online website for SWLs, hams and those who just want to listen to get to listen to worldwide and local broadcasts and transmissions from around the world. I recommend you sign up and try it. LW, MW, SW, VHF, UHF and microwave frequencies are all accessible and if you add your receiver to the network you'll become an admin.

I'm not from DXTuners but discovered it recently.

Ham radio operators, SWLs, and the vaguely interested should try it out!

Enjoy!