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Re:The Backbone of VHF Amateur Radio May Be Under Threat by quotemstr on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:12PM (#20336519)
People have been bringing up the solar flare electromagnetic boogeyman for decades. It's never been an actual problem
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Re:The Backbone of VHF Amateur Radio May Be Under Threat by geggam on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:16PM (#20336562)
Maybe not your lifetime but it has happened and we have been damned lucky more than once recently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/2...

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Re:The Backbone of VHF Amateur Radio May Be Under Threat by quotemstr on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:36PM (#20336767)
I was around for that. Civilization did not end. Services were not disrupted.
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