I am starting to feel "shell- shocked". I had two storms come through
here in rapid succession. Storm #1 produced incredibly heavy wet snow.
It caused many trees to suffer with large broken limbs. The snow depth
was 13.5 inches. It really stuck to the trees. All of my eight beverage
antennas were damaged as they run though the woods and had all sorts of
large branches fall on them, dropping the wires. Then the XYL and I
both got Covid and were sick in bed for a week or so. This past Friday,
a large rain/ windstorm wiped everything out. We lost power for a few
days and the temps dropped to single digits for a few days. Everything
froze up solid. Many of the beverage wires managed to get frozen to the
ground. (Not fun) My internet connection was out for almost five days.
The damage is quite bad to many of the trees and the typical scene is a
24" tree trunk (White Pine) snapped in half about 25 ft up off the
ground. The top part then falls and takes out many trees around it as it
comes down. I counted six big trees down across the beverages and many
of the wires have snapped. I spent a day chain sawing and then followed
up with another day repairing the beverage wire with home made splices.
I use aluminum wire and the splices are aluminum barrels with four sets
of 8-32 s.s. set screws. The high winds combined with huge amounts of
water and the melting snow plus rain managed to wash out the road that
goes up to my VHF hamshack. I had just paid to have the road repaired
about a month ago and all the stone they put down is now gone or in the
wrong place!
After two days of working in the woods, I have some of the wires fixed.
I figure another two days and I will have the 160 receive antennas
working again. I m not sure what to do about the road.
73
Dave K1WHS
On 12/27/2022 4:46 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Sorry to see that so many of you in North America are suffering with
horrendous winter weather at the moment.
For those of you who can sill get on 160m, hope to see some of you on the
band this week.
73 Roger G3YRO
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