Topband: Fwd: Re: Future propagation ?

[Arthur Delibert]

In 1969, there was a project called BOMEX, which attempted to study very intensively a segment of the earth's atmosphere in the region of Barbados.  One of the things they found was a very fine dust, whose arrival followed -- by the appropriate length of time -- satellite images that showed dust storms blowing off the Sahara and over the Atlantic Ocean.

-- Art Delibert, KB3FJO

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> From: k8mn at frontiernet.net
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 19:09:11 +0000
> Subject: Topband: Fwd: Re:  Future propagation ?
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> Subject: Re: Topband: Future propagation ?
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 19:08:35 +0000
> From: Dave Heil <k8mn at frontiernet.net>
> To: k1fz at myfairpoint.net
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> See: http://www.britannica.com/science/harmattan
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> This dust from the Sahara is a yearly event and I have no doubt that
> some of it ends up off the East Coast.
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> Even with windows closed and masking tape on the seams, I'd wake up in
> the middle of the night, coughing and choking, in Guinea-Bissau when the
> Harmattan arrived.
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> 73,
> 
> Dave Heil K8MN
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> On 04-Dec-15 16:29, K1FZ-Bruce wrote:
> >   Watching NOVA on PBS last night.  Diving into Blue water "sink holes".  Found evidence indicated that iron rich sand from the very dry Sarah Desert had blown across the Atlantic to the Bahama Island region.
> > (possibly related to previous global warming period ?)
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> > Wondering, if this takes place again, will this semi conductive  material give us a leg up on propagation to Africa, and beyond ? (;>))
> >
> > 73
> > Bruce-K1FZ
> > www.qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
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