Topband: QRN frm hurricane "Frances" ?

[Ronald Sekkel]

Hello Wolf !

I'm a little bit far from the hurricane areas, but I can say this was the 
noisiest winter I can remember. Even on cold nights (and yes, this was a 
cold winter for our patterns in Brazil) sometimes the QRN was over S9. And 
we don't have any rain around for two months now. Our thunderstorms season 
starts in November. So, this may be a very large QRN area !

Anyway, I'm ready to start the noise fight !

73's

Ron


At 08:53 16/09/2004 -0300, Dr .Wolf Ostwald wrote:
>hi reflectees !
>In the last days, especially the last 3 days, i observed fairly high QRN 
>levels in Europe on 160m and 80 m bands.
>This does not fit into the greater local EU weather pattern as we have 
>cold nights and no reported thunderstorms.
>My directional receiving antennas say, the noise is propagated over the 
>northern Atlantic and is not of equatorial origin. My suspicion is now 
>that hurricane "Frances" or its remnants are creating this QRN.
>Question is, do topband stations in the greater neighborhood of the 
>hurricane observe significantly higher QRN, and do stations, being in 
>North America, locate high noise in the hurricanes direction ?
>73 de wolf (diggin` into the noise )
>
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Ronald J. Sekkel - PY2FUS
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