[Elecraft] Meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia

[Gerald Manthey]

Thank you Paul.
I appreciated hearing it first hand. I am glad he and his family are all
okay. Hoping for the best for all those that experienced it.
Thanks
Gerald- KC6CNN
On Feb 18, 2013 11:26 AM, "Richard Fjeld" <rpfjeld at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, I remember the call UK9AAN well as I have his card from May 1976. I
> worked him QRP using 2 watts SSB with a TenTec Argonaut on 20 meters no
> less. Here is the best part; it was a pile-up and I only gave him one call.
> I had just installed the rig.  Man, was I elated.  Thank you for that
> information.
>
> Rich, n0ce (but not back then)
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Paul VanOveren
>   To: elecraft reflector
>   Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 5:51 AM
>   Subject: [Elecraft] Meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia
>
>
>   Many on this reflector may know Willy, UA9BA, (UK9AAN) (UP2L) He is
>   probably one of the most well known Russian hams..He and I have been
>   friends since 1977. Here is the return email I received from him
> regarding
>   his
>   Vladimir Umanets
>   Feb 16 (2 days ago)
>   to Paul
>   Hey buddy!!!
>
>   Yes we're ALL fine!
>
>   I  was at my office with window jalousie closed. The windows are looking
>   North.
>   The meteor exploded  about 20km South of Chelyabinsk and 50 km high. So
> the
>   explosion couldn't
>   be seen from my windows. Nevertheless it was like this - it started
> getting
>   brighter and brighter in my office
>   for  about 1,5 second then it got very bright for maybe ,5 second, so
>   bright that I almost got blind for a moment and then
>   the light quickly disappeard. I was asking myself what could that be and
>   thought of a nuclear explosion and waited for two minutes
>   if anything else would follow, but nothing happened. But in one more
> minute
>   this horroble very long and loud crashing sound came!
>   The whole building was quaking with this sound and I clearly felt that
> the
>   sound and the force came from the above. We all were
>   ordered to leave the building and when we came out we saw this two line
>   trace turning into one line trace with junction point just
>   above our heads and little bit to the South. This cloud was very big and
> it
>   seemed in very close proximity even though it turned out
>   to be over 50 km away. I looked around and found out that lots and lots
> of
>   windows were broken. The ambulances started coming in
>   and I saw many people were injured and bleeding some couldn't walk by
>   themselves. It was a very frustrating expirience and many
>   people  are still under shock. Even I go over and over those moments and
>   don't feel normal, still kind of excited or something.
>   I don't know what frightened me more the spectacular light, or the hit
>   wave, or those bleeding people. All this happened on Friday
>   morning  at the plant I work for. The plant loss is estimated at 85 000
> 000
>   R which is en equivl. of 1.5 month salory of our 1900
>   employees. The plant lost about 25000 sq.m of windows, over 50 doors,
> lots
>   of equipment (measuring, PCs and so on).
>   This was the day I will remember till my last day.  My family is OK. My
>   house (42 km South of Chelyabinsk) lost its windows and that was
>   the only damage to my family. By the way, this explosion woke up my 81
> year
>   old mother with its spectacular light. She lives in Troitsk
>   136 km South of Chelyabinsk. The hit wave came 6+ minutes later and was
>   very strong as mother said.
>
>   That's how it was. I now feel like I trust in God more and more...
>
>   73's & GL, Willy UA9BA
>
>   l
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