Jim Kelley wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:
I've never said I have ever heard a single particle
discharge. It was someone else who said that. I agree
with the 2000 ARRL Handbook when they said it was
"almost continuous". I have certainly heard that
"hash-type noise" get worse with wind speed. I wish
I had made S-meter measurements.

Were having a 'Santa Ana' wind today in So Cal. High ion concentration.
S9+ noise levels on the HF bands. Happens almost every time we have a
'Santa Ana' condition.

So Jim, would you say that's corona discharge or dry-air
charged-particle problems?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp