On Jan 14, 8:23*pm, Dave wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:

Remember that it is predicted that our world will flip with respect to
the poles
thus the zenith of sun spots will alter by eleven years. Best to learn
to swim before that happens. Last thing I heard was the magnetic pole
was in Siberia and still going away. Hopefully there is
still time for the poles to change their minds and return.
Art
Art

The Earth's magnetic field does not affect when sunspots happen.

From what I have read the alignment of poles from both of them ( Sun
and Earth) determine
the degree of sunspots and flares. This was reported in Scientific
American sometime last year together with the magnetic type stream and
their elasticity and it relationship with respect to the solar wind. I
don't know enough about the subject to debate what is correct and what
is correct.
But it does correlate with the sun's cycle that is of concern to hams
at the present time and with hams past experiences.
Art