<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Andrew, since you started out with some humor I hope you will forgive me for this tongue-in-cheek comment:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This space weather alert tried to warn us, but who knew?:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:10.4px;white-space:pre-wrap">Space Weather Message Code: ALTK07
Serial Number: 102
Issue Time: 2016 May 08 0558 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2016 May 08 0559 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0300-0600 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
</span><a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:10.4px;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation</a><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:10.4px;white-space:pre-wrap">
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices.
Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur.
Navigation - Intermittent <font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">satellite navigation (GPS) problems</font>, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur.
Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent.
Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:10.4px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Pavlin via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div dir="ltr">I always wondered why the AvMap G6 was considered a hot property, and I found out today when mine caught fire.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It was doing a lousy job of syncing up to satellites to get a fix, and then the fix was really bad (always off the road). Suddenly, I heard a frying sound and clouds of vision-obscuring acidic smoke poured out of the back of the thing<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">...</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO</div><div dir="ltr">author of YAAC<br></div></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>