This is for everyone who complains about the snow static QRN on the bands.
The big snowstorm is rolling over Boston. It's snowing, sleeting, raining
with lightning and
thunder. (A commercial jet just got hit by lightning on takeoff from Logan
Airport; it returned
safely.)
In my apartment (top, 4th floor of a brick building in the city of Boston)
I am hearing coronal
discharges off my office's cabling whenever the wind gusts up above 20 knots or
so. There is no
radio here -- this is audio. It sounds like someone quietly crumbling up an
old piece of cellophane.
Cables from the roof-mounted vertical dipole, a satellite TV dish antenna,
and outdoor weather
sensors on the roof above my office enter one corner of the office, laced up
with Ethernet, USB,
power and other stuff. I get the occasional indoor 'tick' when a lightning
strike occurs within a
mile or so. It doesn't come from any cable in particular that I can
determine... just induced
voltage differential on something.
Lots of computers and stuff humming quietly away, oblivious to it all. A
rising potential lifts
all chassis (we hope!)...
-- Eric K3NA
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See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather
Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions
and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
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