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[Kevin Rock]

Howdy Folks,
    I have not been on the air very much this week so can make no
predictions about propagation conditions on 20 or 40 meters.  I'm been
trying to beat another ECOM course into its final form.  ARECC Level 3
hybrid classes commence on April 9th.  Should keep me off the streets for
a while since I have to work five times harder than the students!
    The unseemly and un-Oregon weather has passed.  We are back to normal.  
Cold and wet.  75 degrees one day and 45 degrees the next.  Must be
something to do with Mt. St. Helens blowing off a bit of ash now and
then.  I missed the 1980 burst but may get to see another one.  We are not
feeling much in the way of ground shaking though.  Being from the Midwest
earthquakes are a pretty rare occurence.  Just the New Madrid fault and
not many others.

Please join us :
Monday 0000z (Sunday 4pm PST) 14050 kHz
Monday 0300z (Sunday 7pm PST)  7045 kHz

Visit our web site: http://ecn.visionseer.com/ for net details.  Thanks
Dan.

There are no special procedures to follow on ECN.  Just send your call
sign when one of the NCS folks calls for QNI.  Speed is whatever you feel
comfortable with.  Please check in and see who you can hear around North
America.  You also get to hear a few
weather reports too.
    Good evening and see you on the nets,
        Kevin.  KD5ONS


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[Ron D'Eau Claire-2]

Kevin, KD5ONS wrote:
...Mt. St. Helens blowing off a bit of ash now and
then.  I missed the 1980 burst but may get to see another one.

-----------------

Grabbing a few minutes to listen on the bands late one afternoon recently
here in Forest Grove in N.W. Oregon, not far from Kevin, I hear the QRN
level steadily rising, just like turning the gain up. Humph! Someone's got
something noisy out there. Sssssssschttttt.....Rcccccccht!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzz.....  

Oh well, it's time to head down to the office for a meeting about 6 p.m. I
usually make the half-mile trip on foot from the house.

Outdoors I see it. A tall column of cloud pushing upward, I learned later,
over 7 miles into the sky - almost 40,000 feet. Ash and dust and smoke and
steam from Mt. St. Helens. Nothing at all like 1980, but then there's not
much left of the mountain top to blow into the sky. No killing pyroclastic
flows. No massive detonations to level millions of trees.

This day it's just smoke, steam and ash. People watched in awe. Airliners
cautiously skirted it. Instead of killing a forest and all the people and
creatures in it, Mt. St. Helens produced a huge electrostatic generator. Ash
rubbing against ash tumbling into the air. I'm told that up close at night
one can see lightning in such a cloud. A visual cacophony of flashes as
massive static discharges roar across billions of charged particles,
constantly releasing the energy of a steadily-growing electric potential. A
seven mile high Van De Graaf generator flashing in eerie blue lights.  

But this day it was full daylight. Just a big cloud. And some mysterious QRN
for those listening nearby on the shortwaves.

Ron AC7AC


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