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[email protected] · June 3rd 12, 07:42 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:03:12 -0000, wrote:

Solar flare effects at ground level are magnetic effects.

Thanks. There's an all too common misconception that the engergetic
charged particles produced by solar flares, solar storms, solar wind,
CME's, etc somehow land on the power lines, which then appears as a DC
voltage on the lines. That's not how it works at ground level. This
explains it better than I could:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetically_induced_current

I can almost guarantee our babbling Polish idiot believes that solar
produced particles make it through the atmosphere, which they do not.

All that energetic crap from space winds up being trapped by the air in the
upper atmosphere, ionizing the air from about 85 km to 600 km in altitude,
which is why the ionosphere exists.

It occurs to me I should probably define the term "energetic crap from
space".

What is meant is any particle or EMR with sufficient energy to knock an
electron off of an atom.

For EMR, that starts in the UV region, which is the primary source for the
ionosphere under normal conditions.

During solar flares, there are LOTS of high energy particles being ejected
by the Sun of sufficient energy which add to the mix.

For an off topic amusement:

I did a search for our babbling Polish friend and the first thing I found
was a message posted to a Polish medical list where he claims all cancer
is a fungus and should be treated with Epsom salts.

It appears his idiocy is boundless.