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Radiation Storm Lets You Listen Long-Distance

Posted by timothy on from the there-are-people-into-everything dept.

bubblegoose writes: "There is a large radiation storm in progress caused by a solar flare on the backside of the Sun. Here's a story from Spaceweather. It has a pretty cool effect on radio signals. I was picking up a 6000 Watt North Carolina FM station from near Philly." Bubblegoose also brings you this link to dxing.com, a site all about listening in when freak atmospheric conditions create unusual RF propagation patterns.

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  1. Old News by Wind_Walker · · Score: 0, Troll
    Come on, people, didn't you see Frequency? I mean, this guy could talk to his dead father over a span of 30 years, and now we think it's some great revelation that radiation causes communication?

    I mean, if it's in a movie, it has to be true, right?