Vs: [HCDX]: Leonids disappoint Asian watchers

["Kaj Höglund" <khoglund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!
Some beautiful leonids in the morning (17th nov.) 5.15 am - 5.50 am UTC. Only few in the evening. We were quite disappointed here in Vaasa, Finland.
Yours,
Kaj
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Lähettäjä: Sonny M. Ashimori <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Vastaanottaja: Hard-Core-DX <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Päivä: 18. marraskuuta 1998 18.04
Aihe: [HCDX]: Leonids disappoint Asian watchers


>Dear Friends,
>
>We set out late last night with a few amateur astrologist friends to watch
>what was believed to be the "biggest show in 33 years of the Leonid meteor
>shower." We drove 30 km to escape city lights (34N/135E), and my friends
>set their cameras at about 2 a.m. (1700 UTC) when the sky cleared up and
>the condition looked ideal. I had brought my FRG-7700 with a simple 10m
>antenna, and a portable FM radio. It was very windy and cold, but we stayed
>there about two hours, lying on the ground, vaguely looking into the
>northeastern sky.
>
>I saw 6 of them myself in what seemed like 20 minutes, and my friends saw
>many more, but apparently all the experts thought wrong when they predicted
>the peak to be 1900 UTC Nov. 17. Now they say it came 8-12 hours earlier,
>when it was midday in Japan, and reportedly "thousands" were seen in parts
>of Europe. We saw an average of 70/hour between 3-4 a.m. (1800-1900 UTC)
>local time, but thick clouds covered much of Japan, so I was one of the
>luckier few.
>
>We have seen reports from Europe and North America of abnormal FM
>propagation, but unfortunately here in the Far East I don't think anything
>much happened, at least not that I noticed. It all seemed business as usual
>on shortwave and FM, except the static noise was high on lower shortwave
>bands.
>
>Hope all of you have been able to see some of them, wherever you are!
>
>Sonny
>
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