Month: May 2022

LUNAR ECLIPSE THIS WEEKEND: The Moon is about to turn red. On Sunday evening, the full Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth. The total lunar eclipse will be widely visible from the Americas on May 15th; and Africa and Europe on Read more…

Update: The sunspot *did* flare today. An X1.5 class explosion on May 10th (1355 UT) caused a radio backout over the Atlantic Ocean and may have hurled a complicated CME toward Earth. X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: “Mixed-up” sunspot AR3006 (described below) exploded on Read more…

Canada’s CTV News reports shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send encrypted messages, is being resurrected for the war in Ukraine The story says: According to Dr. Andrew Hammond, curator and historian at Washington, D.C.’s International Spy Museum, Read more…

Canadian amateurs to use special prefixes for Platinum Jubilee…. Canada’s radio amateurs will be using the prefixes XK, XJ, VG and VX from May 15 to July 14 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth IIThere will also be Read more…