Jupiter is a source of powerful bursts of natural radio waves that can produce exotic sounds when picked up on Earth using simple antennas and shortwave receivers. Even though human ears can't hear the radio waves directly, they make an exciting listening experience when converted to audio signals by a receiver.
Recently Space / Astronomy report suggests that the sun is at it's lowest sun spot cycle of the 11 year period. Along with this, the brief report states that Io, one of Jupiter's moons in conjunction

with Jupiter has been very loud lately. Between Jupiter and Io, some many trillion watts of a DC signal may be responsible for creating lots of noise on the Amateur bands.

The Ball-of-Light Particle Model predicts that Jupiter is a decaying ball-of-light, originally ejected by the core of the sun. If jupiter was "dead" so-to-speak, the energy it gives off from its surface would be less than or equal to the energy absorbed from the sun -- as is the case with our moon. This is not the case. Jupiter emits 1.7 times more energy than it receives from the sun. Therefore, Jupiter has an internal energy source -- a very large energy source. It is this energy along with it's moon Io that may be responsible for noise on HF bands.

Jupiter gives off very irregular bursts of radiation that seem to be connected with Io's orbit. This radiation is strongest at the 10 MHz frequency. The Ball-of-Light Particle Model predicts that the core of Jupiter is mostly harmonic. However, the core is destabilized by the gravitational forces induce by Jupiter's moons and by its trip around the sun. Io is the closest of Jupiter's large moons and therefore would have the greatest destabilizing affect on Jupiter's core. When Jupiter's core becomes unstable, it ejects balls-of-light that decay -- normally in the cloudy atmosphere of Jupiter. When these balls-of-light decay, they create bursts of radiation that last several minutes to a few hours. How long the bursts last would depend on how quickly the balls-of-light would decay. The type of radiation emitted from such bursts can be, and are, very complex.

Radio JOVE. Thanks to a NASA project known as Radio JOVE, the pleasure of listening to Jupiter's broadcast of exotic sounds is no longer reserved for professional astronomers.

Amateur astronomers, ham radio enthusiasts, shortwave listeners and students in middle schools, high schools and colleges can tune in, too.

NASA scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, along with others at the University of Florida, are helping the public tune in and inspiring thousands to look up and listen to the biggest planet in the Solar System.

NASA has come up with a $115 radiotelescope kit that a school science class or other interested observers can put together. The kit includes all of the parts required to construct a 20 MHz radio receiver.

It comes with the necessary transmission cables and wire for the dual antennas, which are of a common type that ham radio operators call half-wave dipoles. Each antenna is about 20 feet long. They should be mounted 20 feet apart.

The kit doesn't include the PVC pipe recommended for mounting the wires. However, PVC is inexpensive at local hardware stores. Alternatively, wood could be used for mounting the antennas.

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• Radio Jove
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• How To Hear Radio Signals From Jupiter
• Jupiter

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