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The effects of the solar eclipse of March 29, 2006, in the signals of ULF radio stations, in the intensity of regular radio noise at frequencies of 0.3–10 kHz, and in the number of atmospherics received in Yakutsk mostly from the west have been considered. The observations were performed using a multichannel parallel analyzer-recorder (11 channels in the frequency band 0.47–8.7 kHz), one-point lightning direction and range finder (0.3–100 kHz), narrow-sector radio noise direction-finder (0.3–10 kHz), recorder of signals from VLF radio stations, and broadband radio noise recorder (0.3–100 kHz). A GPS clock was used to synchronize a recorder of signals from VLF radio stations. The effect was observed in radio signals, radio noise, and number of atmospherics from the direction 270° ± 20° counted off clockwise from the north during the last stage of the eclipse (∼ 1100–1200 UT), when the lunar shadow approached the line of the nighttime terminator and obscured part of the signal propagation path. The effect was observed as an enhancement of the received signals by a factor of ∼1.2, a factor of ∼1.4 increase in the number of atmospherics, and a change in the radio station phase values.
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Original Russian Text © R.R. Karimov, V.I. Kozlov, V.A. Mullayarov, 2008, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 250–254.
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Karimov, R.R., Kozlov, V.I. & Mullayarov, V.A. Specific features of variations in the characteristics of VLF signals when the lunar shadow propagated along the path during the solar eclipse of March 29, 2006. Geomagn. Aeron. 48, 240–244 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793208020138
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