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[SECC] Some wind damage

Subject: [SECC] Some wind damage
From: w4atl at arrl.net (Sherman Banks)
Date: Sun Jul 27 07:46:44 2003
My 40M antenna got wrapped around my tri-bander and my 80M dipole came down.
Spent Friday morning putting them back up.  Then my computer blew up!  Poof
goes the power supply.  I think it also took the motherboard.  I'm using my
work laptop until I can get my home computer going.  Ugh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherman Banks [mailto:w4atl@arrl.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:41 AM
To: secc
Subject: RE: [SECC] Some wind damage




-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Jay Pryor
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:18 AM
To: David L. Thompson; secc
Subject: Re: [SECC] Some wind damage


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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