Between 1951 and the early 1970s, John H. Nelson, a radio engineer employed by RCA Communications in New York, developed and published a method for forecasting shortwave radio propagation disturbances over the North Atlantic. In his seminal article in RCA Review (March 1951, see below), he correlated heliocentric planetary positions with historical logs of signal quality recorded at RCA's receiving station in Riverhead, Long Island. Nelson observed that propagation disturbances tended to coincide with specific angular relationships—primarily 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°—among the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn relative to the Sun. (HERE)
Nelson later reported high predictive accuracy, claiming that of approximately 1,500 forecasts issued in 1967, 93.2% were within one point of observed conditions on a six-point scale. He presented his approach as an empirical engineering technique, avoiding explicit references to astrology, though the angular aspects he identified closely resembled those traditionally employed in astrological analysis (such as conjunctions, squares, and oppositions).
» In summation, after more than 25 years of research in this field of solar system science, I can say without equivocation that there is very strong evidence that the planets, when in certain predictable arrangements, do cause changes to take place in those solar radiations that control our ionosphere. I have no solid theory to explain what I have observed, but the similarity between an electric generator with its carefully placed magnets and the sun with its ever-changing planets is intriguing. In the generator, the magnets are fixed and produce a constant electrical current. If we consider that the planets are magnets and the sun is the armature, we have a considerable similarity to the generator. However, in this case, the magnets are moving. For this reason, the electrical-magnetic stability of the solar system varies widely. This is what one would expect. «
John H. Nelson, Cosmic Patterns, 1974.
