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Subject: [SECC] Some wind damage
From: w4nti at mindspring.com (Dan/W4NTI)
Date: Fri Jul 25 18:57:24 2003
My tree mounted loops and dipoles made it through.  Checked the beam out.
Had some more leaves on it.  But resting nicely out there with the tower
side by side..on the ground.  :)

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary McConville" <wb4sq@yahoo.com>
To: "secc" <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [SECC] Some wind damage


> Poor yagis.  My 'flexable' quad came out unscathed.
>
> Gary - WB4SQ
>
> --- Jay Pryor <jpryor@uga.edu> wrote:
> > I lost my 40M dipole in the storm, which is not a
> > big deal.  However,
> > yesterday afternoon I discovered that on the way to
> > the ground it took part
> > of the roof mounted tribander with it.  I don't know
> > yet how serious it is,
> > I'll find out Saturday when I go up for a look.
> >
> > 73,  Jay/K4OGG
> >
> > At 12:27 AM 7/25/2003, David L. Thompson wrote:
> > >The wind that blew through on Tuesday did some
> > damage to my KT34XA.  The
> > >front tri-band director was turned sideways and
> > about 20 degrees vertical.
> > >One side is Ok but vertical but the other side is
> > bent about 2 feet out on
> > >the  main aluminum tube at about 50 degrees.  Looks
> > like I will need a 1" by
> > >72" piece of aluminum.  I looked through the
> > manuals and updates but no
> > >mention of the type of aluminum (suspect 6061).
> > Any one have any ideas?
> > >
> > >I also lost one side of my 80 meter half square.
> > Fixed that and the other
> > >side broke off pulling it up.
> > >
> > >My neighbor lost two big trees and I have not found
> > any other damage.  I do
> > >notice the parasitic 10 meter element on the KT34XA
> > is slightly off
> > >horizontal but that is it.  Sure must have been
> > some wind on the director to
> > >actually twist the boom to element clamp and bend
> > the 1" aluminum.
> > >
> > >73 Dave K4JRB
> > >
> > >
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