Beware of Radio Selling Scammers

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Someone else got scammed by a regular scammer, selling an Icom 7300 from an alleged deceased estate in Turners Beach. The scammer took the money and ran, thankfully Bank of Queensland have frozen the bank account, pending further investigation.

The buyer said the seller was very confident on the phone, even sending a photo of his Tasmanian drivers licence indicating he lived in Rocherlea but it expired in 2021.

The seller usually lists the item as deceased estate, says he doesnt know much about it, and has claimed to live in Bicheno, Launceston, Ulverstone and other suburbs, but doesn’t want to meet up in person.

If you are fairly confident its a scam, you can google the bank account bsb number to see what bank it belongs to and contact the bank, they really appreciate the feedback.

Copy and paste photos of the image they supply into google image search, as they steal most images off the web to entice you to buy it, so you can soon see if its fraudulent.

An Expansion on Solar Cycle Prediction

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An Expansion on Solar Cycle Prediction

SC25 officially began as of December 2019, and was given a forecasted maximum sunspot number (SSN) of 115, predicted to take place around July 2025, as stated by NOAA. As the months passed, sunspot numbers quickly began to exceed the forecast for any given month in the middle of 2020, which then accelerated further in the beginning of 2021. As of March 2021, the sunspot number was regularly well above the forecasted amount, leading to a smoothed average over double what was predicted. Arrive at January 2023, NOAA had a forecasted average value of 63.4, whereas the measured value landed on 143.6!

As a comparison, this number is slightly higher than the first monthly average peak in SC24, and just barely under the second peak. More impressively in the numbers for January is the second index that is observed during the solar cycle, the Solar Flux Index, also denoted as the f10.7.

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