Australian Ionospheric Prediction Service under threat

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The IPS provides forecasts and alerts of ionospheric activity. They may be forced to cease or reduce the Ionospheric Prediction Service, or offer it as a commercial service.
http://www.ips.gov.au/

Amateurs are probably most interested in their HF condition reports:
http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems

The details of the review are at http://review.ips.gov.au/.

I encourage you all to request the discussion paper from the email address on the review site.
They use this "number of requests" to judge importance.

Hilary
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I was just going to make a post to this effect, but youse beat me to it.



Next thing the Mad Monk and Joe Hacker will try to Tax your ionosphere.............

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And this was the prompt reply I received, I had assumed it was a Oz funding cutback, but maybe not so:




I will be out of the office May 9 - June 6. I will respond as quickly as I can while away or shortly after returning.
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Terrance Onsager
NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction Center
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO USA 80305
1-303-497-5713

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paper requested!


adding spurious text as apparently "paper requested" is too short a post for the forum to accept, therefore you all get to waste your life reading this sentence as I'd prefer to indicate my support rather than neglect to post anything

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paper requested , thanks for the heads up !!
Frank VK4FLR

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The paper, is about 100 pages & 1.4Mb.

A very good read, it covers a lot of ground.

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I got the same response _

will be out of the office May 9 - June 6. I will respond as quickly as I can while away or shortly after returning.
--
Terrance Onsager
NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction Center
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO USA 80305
1-303-497-5713

How do you get a copy ??
73 Frank VK4FLR

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Turns out that Dr Dave Neudegg is not actually out of office, and he sent it instead.

Probably get attended to during business hours.