TV Technology contributor Doug Lung writes: Since Solar Cycle 23 peaked between 2000 and 2003, solar activity has been declining. Amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners have been closely ...

So it was with some fanfare that they recently announced that the sun had transitioned into Solar Cycle 25 ... On the other hand, amateur radio operators and others who depend on ionospheric ...

Huie, 87, has the hobby of ham radio ... he types a report of his findings on the signal’s strength and reach, which depend on atmospheric conditions and the solar cycle among many other ...

The most powerful eruption of 2025 so far was observed last week, and caused a 10-minute period of 'degraded communications' ...

The sun is in the upswing of its roughly 11-year solar cycle. The number ... adds that they "can impact radio communication on frequencies used by amateur radio operators, aircraft over oceans ...

"Mariners, aviators and ham radio operators may have noticed loss ... The sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle. The current cycle is known as Solar Cycle 25.

While invisible and harmless to anyone on the Earth’s surface, the geomagnetic waves unleashed by solar storms can cripple power grids, jam radio communications ... caused ham radios to turn ...