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Re: Report: HAM predicted LA Quake weekend before - any details?

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From: bill nelson
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 00:18
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bmiller@landesk.intel.com (Brett Miller - Support Engineer) writes:
: 
: There is a guy in the Bay Area (California) with the last name of Cole
: that predicts earthquakes by listening to HF or VLF frequencies on a
: receiver.  I don't know if he is a Ham or even the person the news
: was referring to, but my guess is that it was him.  I met him once and
: he was a bit eccentric.  Most experts have dismissed his predictions
: but he HAS predicted a few correctly.  He says that he can hear
: fluctuations of radiowaves on his receiver, weeks prior to an earthquake.
: 
: Very few "earthquake predictors" are taken seriously.

That is because their predictions are no better than random.

Bill
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Report: HAM predicted LA Quake weekend before - any details?
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.001852.4964@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 00:18:52 GMT
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