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Natural Radio is the VLF radio emissions that originate terrestrially from lightning and within the earth's magnetosphere through interaction with the Sun. Most of these radio signals, sferics, tweeks, whistlers, chorus and others, occur within the range of human hearing, and can be heard with simple receivers as described on this site.

Natural Radio Lab also looks at Space Weather and Geomagnetic Storms. These are affected by solar activity such as the solar wind, sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections or CMEs. In the popular media, these events are often loosely referred to as "solar storms" or "sun storms".

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What is the “E-field”?

naturalradiolab.com Posted on January 23, 2012 by Mark KarneyOctober 21, 2012

All electromagnetic waves have two components, the electrical component, called the E-field and the magnetic component, called the H-field. Natural radio receivers are designed to respond to one or the other component. An E-field receiver responds to the electrical component of the wave and usually employs a short whip antenna. An H-field receiver responds to the magnetic component and usually has a loop antenna.

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