I guess we lucked out and missed that big storm down here near Columbus......
Although.. I really don't have any "big" antennas to blow down HI
Jeff
>
> From: Gary McConville <wb4sq@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/07/25 Fri AM 09:23:40 EDT
> To: secc <secc@contesting.com>
> 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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