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Please hold the comments until I finish the article. Comments I save for, I apologize, but that's just how I run the net, so I'll take comments. Actually, I don't take comments during the presentation here, so I will take them afterwards. Continuing on, this is KI-0ER net control for the Colorado astronomy net. After standing outside, staring in awe at the auroras, I decided to go back inside the house and see what the storm was doing to the band. He says, I tuned in to WWE from Fort Collins, Colorado at 10 MHz. The warbling and heterodyning were impressive. In addition to the detection from Fort Collins, Ms. Pappas also picked up an overlapping signal from the WW8 station in Hawaii. I generally struggle to receive Hawaii from my location, he says, radio propagation conditions were just haywire. During strong geomagnetic storms, Earth's ionosphere becomes turbulent and full of bubbles. Rapid changes in electron density caused a short wave of radio signals to flutter, creating warbling tones, waiving pitch, and underwater sounds. The same fluctuations can affect GPS receivers at much higher radio frequencies, causing GPS-guided pharma equipment to act crazy. Twelve hours later the storm subsided and back has made another recording. The metronome was back to normal.