On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Sorry to hear about your problem, Fra. It seems to have been a bad tech day all around.
It's because there are currently no sunspots.
Spaceweather.com shows a new one just coming onto the Earth-facing side of the Sun so everything should be OK in a couple of days.
Cheers,
- Dave (not entirely serious)
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

