[R-390] Framingham, MA Flea report Nov. 8 New R390

[mikea]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:10:56PM -0600, DAN COTSIRILOS wrote:

> From: "mikea" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Framingham, MA Flea report Nov. 8 New R390

> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:11:22PM -0500, flood at Krohne.com wrote:

> >> Powered up at home it seemed to overload on some of the local BC
> >> stations. A quick adjustment of the gain control helped that and
> >> then the AGC was AG'ing again. I let it run on a local station
> >> a few hours and after getting the kids to bed started tuning
> >> around HF. Not much heard. Tried the BBC on 5975 and found them
> >> weak. Got depressed at that point and went to bed. The baby was
> >> crying at about 4:00AM and when I went in to sort things out I
> >> was wondering why the sun was coming up so early. It turned out
> >> to be an aurora. The baby and I checked out the light show and
> >> other radios on HF and they were dead as well. I guess things are
> >> OK after all.

> > There's not a whole lot to be done when the Wendigo is walking; you
> > might be lucky to pick up local BCB stations when it's really severe.

> Mike the bands are dead here in Chicago last night and today. maybe the 
> radio is fine?  Dan

That was my point, actually: in some Amerind/"First Nations"/"Native 
American" tales, the aurora borealis is associated with the Wendigo
being on the prowl -- not someone/something you want to encounter. 
Hence my reference to the Wendigo walking. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin