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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Solar Flare Maybes

Rays from solar eruption will start hitting Earth today

AHA!

I depend on TV EARS at night because I like my TV audio setting at 40, and MoSup likes hers at 5. So, her hearing is acute, mine not so much. I like to listen to stuff in bed, so these are necessary. Last night I put them on and all I got was fuzz. Sounded like an olio of Big Bang noise, with the glayvin and the debigulation. I tried reconnecting wires - nope. So I figured the damned thing had broken. Then for snickers I put them on and placed me noggin about two inches from the transmitter. Voices! Sound! But move to 3 inches away, and white noise. I wondered if maybe there was some electrical malfunction in a light, but went to bed; without entertainment.

This morning MoSup showed me an article in the paper about the big solar flare. I said, yeah, there's no telling how that will affect us, but the Goreons will be blaming carbon emissions. And Bingo! Could it be that's what neutered my TV Ears? *Jaws music*

I just bought the .Sennheiser RS120

Rodger the Real King of France 6/09/2011 11:13:00 AM 13 Comments

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Anonymous said...: Awesome video of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3u_0NN7OM

It played heck with the ham radio bands too.; 6/9/11, 11:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Rodge,
Do TV Ears work? My puppy ate my hearing aides and Wife is going crazy with the volume on the TV box. The Sun is a mighty ball of gas as is the left sides of congress.
Buzz D; 6/9/11, 12:15 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Yes. I got turned on to them when an ENT physician told me he used them for television - even though he had two $50 million dollar hearing aids. The downside for me are stupidly designed replaceable ear protectors. I ripped it off and fashioned my own tips that don't need changing.; 6/9/11, 12:57 PM
Anonymous said...: I had been using a Sony headset. Was bulky, but the nice thing was that I could leave the TV program on, and go to another room and listen to whatever I was watching. Those broke, and I bought the TV Ears on sale over the internet (about $60). Those are much lighter weight, and work great. Only thing is that they are "line of sight".... you can't leave the room that the transmitter is in.

Cuzzin Rick; 6/9/11, 1:30 PM
DougM said...: Look, I know it's probably not my place to make comments about this stuff; but it occurs to me that most marital problems can be avoided by means of a second TV, a second TV room, a second car, a second income, and a second bedroom.
(What? Yeah, that does sound pretty much like bachelorhood.); 6/9/11, 2:20 PM
BlogDog said...: Sun fart!; 6/9/11, 3:05 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Doug, If I'm downstairs from her, the sound from my set at 200 Db is ... well, you have to hear it.

Can you? Listen.; 6/9/11, 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...: I have a set of the TV Ears but didn't like them because of line of sight operation and they hurt my ears. Some time back WOOT had these

http://www.sennheiserusa.com/cordless-headphones-wireless-stereo-sound-009922

and I got a set. Absolutely no problems, work great (2 years now)comfortable and work through walls etc. Sound is much, much higher quality than the TV Ears. You can get them for under $100. You will think they are the best thing you ever bought.

Zeek; 6/9/11, 5:32 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm using what Zeek suggested at this very moment. The TV is two rooms away while I listen to the local news and play on the innertubes. Wear the damned things while mowing the lawn as well. I like them because they don't have cords to choke me out should I fall asleep while watching Red Eye or necked girl TV.

Chuck from Tacoma; 6/9/11, 8:19 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Thanks Zeek (I think), I just bought the RS120 at Amazon (linked above).; 6/10/11, 9:12 AM
Anonymous said...: OK, classify me with the idiots, but pray tell isn't it dark when you go to bed? Wasn't the sun on the other side of the earth? Do you mean to tell me that this pimple on the surface of the sun can penetrate ~8k miles of earth[ballpark..] and whack your TV Ears?

And, also, pray tell, if sunlight his the earth from 93million miles away in ~6 minutes, howcum this 'explosion' output of radiation is taking so long to get here? I thought it all traveled at the 'speed of light'. But then again, I thought until real recent that airplane wings provided 'lift' because of the 'length of the airflow over the top of the wing vs the lenght of flow under the bottomside.' Which, apparently, is not the case, and explains all that downdraft from 'rotating wing aircraft' which should have produced no such thing if 'lift' were from the 'suction' on the topside of the 'rotary wings'. See, I am in that classification, no?
tomw; 6/10/11, 10:46 AM
Anonymous said...: Thanks for the info. I am headed out to buy TV Earoids!!
Buzz D; 6/10/11, 1:57 PM
pdwalker said...: Well Anonymous at 1:46, that's an amazing display of ignorance.

Solar flares consist mostly of charged particles, things like electrons, protons, hydrogen particles stripped of electrons, that kinda thing.

Unlike electromagnetic energy, these things do not move at light speed - quite a bit slower in fact. However, they do move pretty fast and it only takes a day or three for the particles to arrive in our neighbourhood.

Now here is where the magic happens. The earth is like a giant magnet. And these particles are, unsurprisingly, affected by this magnetic field. The particles get sucked into (or repelled in some cases) magnetic field and ride the lines of force from one side of the planet to the other. This causes all kinds of interesting effects. Some impact directly (depending on the amount of energy they have) and that in turn can cause secondary effects when they smack into the atmosphere.

All in all, it makes for a pretty interesting (or disruptive if you are an electronic device) environment that affects the whole planet, not just the day side.

But thanks for commenting. I'm impressed with your display of higher education.; 6/10/11, 11:26 PM

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Solar Flare Maybes

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