SV: [HCDX]: G Hauser's Shortwave/DX Report 99-73

["Henrik Klemetz" <dhv599n@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

Southern Sweden and Denmark were of course not
hit by a *tropical* hurricane, but certainly by a hurricane
if defined as wind gusts in excess of 40 or 50 metres a
second. All news media coincided in labeling it a hurricane,
and as such almost as unusual for its latitude as the green
November we enjoyed in northern Sweden.

Henrik

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Ämne: Re: [HCDX]: G Hauser's Shortwave/DX Report 99-73


> >** SWEDEN. The above story was also on DX Partyline Dec 11,
> >attributed to Karl Kruger. Hurricanes don't hit Europe, let alone
> >Sweden in December, tho there certainly could have been a bad storm -
> >perhaps some bad translation. I believe remnants of tropical Atlantic
> >hurricanes occasionally reach Britain, but I find it hard to believe
> >that there was a hurricane hitting Hoerby in December, and that R.
> >Sweden's antennas were ``blown to pieces'' -- especially since I was
> >hearing SCDX/MediaScan as usual last Tuesday Dec 7 around 1445 on
> >18960 and 21810. Also checked Sunday Dec 12 when the same two were
> >audible before 1300, and at 1430 as usual with Sounds Nordic. BTW,
> >opening announcement at 1430 still claimed to be on summer frequency
> >15240. A sesquimonth into the B-99 season, would it be too much to
> >ask for R. Sweden to update their announcements? Oh, oh - it was just
> >the MW 1179 facility : (Glenn Hauser, OK)
> >
>
> Surely it was a hurricane. I've never experienced anything like this and
> according to the weather department, it was the ever worst hurricane for
> more than 100 years, that did hit Denmark and Southern Sweden on Friday
3rd
> and early Saturday 4th December. Houses were totally destroyed at the
> westcoast of Denmark (and Glenn Hauser: I mean TOTALLY!), seven people
died
> due to the weather, roofs were smashed, radio transmitter antennas for
local
> radiostations were damaged and many were off the air for many days, and
> national TV-transmitters were also off the air. Insurance companies say,
the
> damaged from the hurricane will cost around three billion Danish crowns
> (about 450 million US dollars).
> I was lucky - I only lost some of the roof, four big trees in the garden -
> and all my antennas.
>
> Best 73's
>
> Bjarke Vestesen
> Denmark
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