How do Sunspots Affect Radio Reception?
In order to understand how sunspots effect radio reception, you need to understand that the light waves and radio waves that the sun emits are both categorized as electromagnetic (EM) radiation. While light waves are visible to the human eye, they are still electromagnetic waves that oscillate. There are many electro magnetic waves, some oscillate very slow and some very fast. The slowest are the long-frequency radio waves. X-rays are some of the fastest EM waves and the light that we see usually falls in the middle of the electromagnetic wave spectrum.
