[Scan-DC] Re Long Distance VHF Skip

[al]

>All,
>
>At 1918 EDT, in the middle of some severe summer wx (heavy rain, electrical,
>etc) for about 30 seconds I was hearing Sky Harbor Airport controller/ATIS on
>119.275. The skip came in just at the end of a burst of heavy rain and 
>stopped
>as soon as the rain had passed.  The only Sky Harbor Airport I could find is
>in Phoenix AZ.
>Perhpas some of the southwest listeners can confirm that this freq is used at
>Sky Harbor.
>Around here 119.275 is the VHF side of Bay Watch Control for Patuxent River
>NAS.
>RON

  It's always nice to get a new,long-distance log.

But I don't think getting that log is worth possibly frying one's radio,or 
anything else associated with it,by running it in the middle of a "severe 
electrical storm".

  Al
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al dudley ....wash dc , usa
  ald61650 at comcast.net
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