[BC] UK gets strange digital law

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Digital radio in the UK is terrestrial, not satellite.  It is what we  
SHOULD have done.

Digital radio will take about the same damage as FM, maybe slightly  
less because the frequencies are higher, and the antennas smaller.

Also, many or most of the GPS satellites would be damaged, but not  
all.  We assume (and we might be wrong) that those shaded from the sun  
will be OK.  We don't really know how long the Carrington Events are,  
nor when they would be most intense, but if they do actually last for  
days, and if the energy is spread out over those days, all satellites  
would move out of "shade" and would likely be fried.

Then again, it may require long wires to capture enough energy to  
cause real damage, but I think that unlikely.

--chip

On Apr 10, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 10
> From: <rfoxwor1 at tampabay.rr.com>
>
> We are in line for a similar event someday. Navigation has now been  
> tied to GPS,
> and the reliable backup (Loran) is being turned off and shut down.
>
> Every few hundred years, apparently (there is no way to measure past  
> events)
> there is a super sized solar storm. The last one we know of occurred  
> in 1859.
> These are called Carrington events, after their discoverer. The last  
> one
> set telegraph stations on fire, one of the few effects that could  
> then be
> observed. You can find a good description on Wikipedia etc. This is  
> due to
> huge longitudinal electric currents induced in wiring by the solar  
> storms.