Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 04:30:45 PST From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #11 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Thu, 27 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: Daily IPS Report - 23 Jan 94 Daily IPS Report - 24 Jan 94 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Jan 94 23:31:14 GMT From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!syd.bull.oz.au!brahman!tmx!basser.cs.su.oz.au!metro!news.ci.com.au!eram@nntp.ucsb.edu Subject: Daily IPS Report - 23 Jan 94 To: ham-space@ucsd.edu IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES AUSTRALIA Daily Solar And Geophysical Report Issued at 2330 UT 22 January 1994 Summary for 22 January and Forecast up to 25 January No warning is current. ----------------------------------------------------------- 1A. SOLAR SUMMARY Activity: low Flares: none. Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 113/064 1B. SOLAR FORECAST 23 January 24 January 25 January Activity Low Low Low Fadeouts None expected None expected None expected Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 110/060 1C. SOLAR COMMENT None. ----------------------------------------------------------- 2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY Geomagnetic field at Learmonth : quiet to unsettled Estimated Indices : A K Observed A Index 21 January Learmonth 04 3211 0012 Fredericksburg 05 07 Planetary 07 07 2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST DATE Ap CONDITIONS 23 Jan 15 Quiet to unsettled. 24 Jan 06 Quiet. 25 Jan 06 Quiet. 2C. MAGNETIC COMMENT Active periods for 22nd did not eventuate. Active periods expected during interval 27-29 Jan due to coronal hole. 3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 22 Jan normal normal normal PCA Event : None. 3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 23 Jan normal fair fair 24 Jan normal normal normal 25 Jan normal normal normal 3C. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION COMMENT NONE. ----------------------------------------------------------- 4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY MUFs at Sydney were slightly above predicted monthly values T index: 53 4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST DATE T-index MUFs 23 Jan 60 About 15% above predicted monthly values. 24 Jan 50 Near predicted monthly values. 25 Jan 60 About 15% above predicted monthly values. Predicted Monthly T Index for January is 30. 4C. AUSTRALIAN REGION COMMENT Slight degradations possible on the 23/24th. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2OP.NSW.AUS.OC PGP 2.3 dave@esi.COM.AU ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave available ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jan 94 23:32:02 GMT From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!syd.bull.oz.au!brahman!tmx!basser.cs.su.oz.au!metro!news.ci.com.au!eram@nntp.ucsb.edu Subject: Daily IPS Report - 24 Jan 94 To: ham-space@ucsd.edu IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES AUSTRALIA Daily Solar And Geophysical Report Issued at 2330 UT 23 January 1994 Summary for 23 January and Forecast up to 26 January No warning is current. ----------------------------------------------------------- 1A. SOLAR SUMMARY Activity: low Flares: none. Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 118/070 1B. SOLAR FORECAST 24 January 25 January 26 January Activity Low Low Low Fadeouts None expected None expected None expected Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 110/060 1C. SOLAR COMMENT None. ----------------------------------------------------------- 2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY Geomagnetic field at Learmonth : quiet to unsettled Estimated Indices : A K Observed A Index 22 January Learmonth 05 2221 1211 Fredericksburg 05 09 Planetary 05 07 2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST DATE Ap CONDITIONS 24 Jan 08 Quiet to unsettled. 25 Jan 08 Quiet to unsettled. 26 Jan 08 Quiet to unsettled. 2C. MAGNETIC COMMENT Active periods expected during interval 27-29 Jan due to coronal hole. 3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 23 Jan normal normal normal PCA Event : None. 3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 24 Jan normal normal fair 25 Jan normal normal fair 26 Jan normal normal fair 3C. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION COMMENT HF Conditons should remain good until Jan 27 when degraded comms are expected for mid and high lats. ----------------------------------------------------------- 4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY MUFs at Sydney were about 15% above predicted monthly values T index: 75 4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST DATE T-index MUFs 24 Jan 60 About 15% above predicted monthly values. 25 Jan 60 About 15% above predicted monthly values. 26 Jan 60 About 15% above predicted monthly values. Predicted Monthly T Index for January is 30. 4C. AUSTRALIAN REGION COMMENT Degraded HF comms expected during Jan 27-29. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2OP.NSW.AUS.OC PGP 2.3 dave@esi.COM.AU ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave available ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 19:14:57 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!wb8foz@decwrl.dec.com To: ham-space@ucsd.edu References <2h99hg$65k@hpavla.lf.hp.com>, <2hd6ji$q5e@hpavla.lf.hp.com>, <1994Jan17.145311.25166@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To : wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher) Subject : Re: Vacuum tubes in spacecraft? gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes: >Note, Apollo used the HP-35 calculator as backup for it's computers, >so the necessary data loads aren't that large. Err, The 35 came out in early 72. It took me 6 months to get one. Thus later Apollo flights may have used them, but not early ones. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close...........(v)301 56 LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close)....kibo# 665.99.........pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead..............vr....................20915-1433 ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #11 ******************************