Tom Donaly wrote:
There's no such thing as a clear-sky charged-particle problem, either
in the Arizona desert or anywhere else.

You are just showing your extreme ignorance, Tom. Many of
us have experienced exactly that problem. Jim Kelley reported
it just a couple of days ago caused by Santa Anna winds in CA.

Just because you have never experienced it is irrelevant.
To be consistent, you must also assert that Jesus never
existed because you never met him.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp