[Elecraft] UV Data

[Wes Stewart]

Well, that got away from me during editing, let me continue....

On 11/7/2018 10:23 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> We're drifting a little but I must concur with my friend Dave's comments.  
> I've lived over 70 of my 77 years right here in Tucson.  As kids we routinely 
> went shirtless and shoe-less while outside and often suffered severe sunburns.
>
> After graduating to driving cars without A/C, we drove with the windows down 
> and our left forearms on the door sills.  As a consequence most of my 
> sun-damaged skin is on the left side. The slightest puncture or pressure can 
> cause bleeding under the skin and the tiniest abrasion tears off flaps of skin 
>   I see my lovely dermatologist twice a year.  Her much older prof of physics 
> husband suffers the same condition as I.  She says that he often chides her 
> because dematology doesn't have a cure.  She tells him that if she could come 
> up with one, she would be a billionaire. In the last few years after seeing 
> her, I get to visit her equally lovely partner who does Mohs surgery, to get 
> my Basil Cell turmors removed.  Plastics aren't the only things that degrade 
> because of UV exposure.

Wes  N7WS

>
> On 11/7/2018 10:00 AM, dyarnes wrote:
>> Ted and all,
>>
>> I also couldn’t resist sorting the data by county, but I was not at all 
>> surprised by the results.  Having lived for about 50 of my 77 years in 
>> Arizona and New Mexico, I knew we had to be near the top of the list.  I feel 
>> it every day!!!  Ironically, my early days of youth were spent in the 
>> northwest, where the numbers are exactly the opposite!  That’s why so many 
>> people up north have that peachy-creamy skin, and down here we all look like 
>> shoe leather!  Here in the southwest we also develop a close relationship 
>> with our dermatologists, or we darn well should!  The good news is that 
>> things don’t tend to rust here!!!  Hi.
>>
>> 73,
>> Dave W7AQK
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting to sort the list by UV flux data.  Doing that for the 3107 
>>> entries, my QTH in Teller County, Colorado, at an average elevation of about 
>>> 8500' and with 247 sunny days per year according to the tourist adsr, is 
>>> number 511.  53 of the 67 counties in Florida rank above it. I would not 
>>> have guessed that . . .
>>>
>>> Ted, KN1CBR
>>
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