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I'm on Lanier I still have no idea.it trully freaked me out the first thing I noticed was this local bar was complelty dark. Then I walk further and see no one had light.
We had some really weird propagation the first 1 1/2 weeks of January ,I know someone on 70 CM 1 watt couldn't bring up his own repeater on his tower ,but could use one 800 miles away , there were much closer machines on that frequency that didn't hear him 10 meters and 40 meters had some crazy hit or miss extreme propagation shifts ,being able to make contacts at extreme distance for 5-10 minutes and then it would change and you didn't move the antenna .
Kind of "Ivy Mike" that yielded 3 times more than was expected. Most likely a regional transformer has said his last "bye". They contain oil inside and may be rather spectacular:
