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- AURORA DISTURBANCES ON H. F. PROPAGATION III
- by Billy Capers, AL7BB
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- After much consideration of what I have been able to uncover
- what this strange thing we call the AURORA BOREALIS is. I am
- conviced that what we are really having to tolerate is not a
- natural thing, it is a prehistoric bird that thrives off
- electromagnetic radiation much the same way that a normal bird
- thrives off seed and little creatures that crawl around. I
- think this bird must normally live in the frozen wastelands
- somewhere above the Arctic Circle, and only appears when it get
- hungary. I would not be surprised if the thing actually
- hibernates much like many members of the animal world, only to
- be disturbed at unpredictable times.
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- Now that we have determined that such a beast does in fact
- exist, I find that a proper name should be placed on that
- creatyure, so in order to simplify reference to the thing, I
- have named it the Great Alaskan Signal Sucker, or GASS Bird.
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- When the GASS Bird swoops down from the North, it litterly
- sucks up all the RF in the area, and stores it in his great
- rear end, to be consumed as required to sustain his activity.
- I have also surmised that actually, there is no such thing as a
- true Aurora, for what we are actually seeing is the great tail
- feathers with all their brilliant colors glowing as the bird
- swoops across the sky. This could well explain the dancing of
- these lights through the skys in a ballet like pattern that
- tends to soothe the savage beast, however awakens the ire in
- ham operators.
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- I have also surmised that as the bird lives in the vicinity
- of the North Pole, and remembering that everything is South of
- there, I believe that the bird is bi-directional, and must fly
- forward toward the South, and backward when returning to his
- resting place. With the size of the thing, he would have a very
- rough time trying to turn around anyway. I surmise that if he
- tried to turn around, he would have to take up most of the
- Milky Way, and would then be completely visible. This being
- against the secretive nature of the GASS Bird, he would rather
- only have a forward and a reverse direction.
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- Now, armed with the information that I have given you, the Ham
- can be equipped with the knowledge of what to expect once he
- sees the brilliant display of the GASS Birds tail feathers, and
- I would recommend that the Ham who has plans of long duration
- in the community of communicators, not climb his tower and
- shake his fist in the snout of the bird, for as there has been
- no recorded cases of the bird actually harming anyone, I am
- sure the possibility does exist.
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- There are also indications that some of the other disturbances
- we hear on the Ham bands could be a direct result of the GASS
- Bird, and we of the brotherhood have been blaming some of our
- neighbors unjustly, but that is another story.
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