I DO find it hard to believe it could have been heard in
Now the radio noise I would easily believe. At that time the signals were in Morse code (probably spark) with (by today’s standards) barely functioning very broad receivers. It would not take much to make the radio unusable, a lightning storm raised havoc; this would have been massive amounts of noise. Since the ‘aerials’ were also huge (a LOT of wire), it’s no stretch that they got hit by the volcanic lightning.
It is still called the
Rick wa6nhc
*
We arrived in
Leave town to the south and in about 5 miles is a left turn which would take you to
It was um, an adventure. Visiting these places needs to be on everyone’s ‘bucket list’.
I know, off topic again. Lin gonna be git’n mad at me agin. ;oP
On June 6, 1912, if you happened to be sitting on a log outside your cabin near There was no way to know the boom came from hundreds of miles away, or that it was the starting gun for the largest volcanic eruption of the 1900s. Nor would you imagine that in the next three days a mountain would collapse upon itself, or that ash and hot gases would explode from the ground six miles from that mountain, creating a landscape of hot ash and 500-foot geysers of steam. The Novarupta-Katmai eruption of 1912 was hard to imagine then just as it is now, 100 years since it happened. • Volcanic lightning and thunder added to the terror on Kodiak Island during the first day of the eruption; static from the charged particles blown from the volcano made the wireless radio useless at the naval station in Kodiak. A fire, possibly caused by volcanic lightning, later destroyed the station. |
__._,_.___
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
__,_._,___
No comments:
Post a Comment