[CQ-Contest] Ice remover

[Jukka Klemola]

http://www.oh8lq.com/deicer.html tells the story in more detail.

73,
Jukka OH6LI

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Lähettäjä: Jukka Klemola [mailto:jukka.klemola at elisanet.fi] 
Lähetetty: 19. joulukuuta 2008 19:51
Vastaanottaja: 'cq-contest at contesting.com'
Aihe: Ice remover

Jari, OH8LQ, cordially added a picture of this tool to his website.

http://www.oh8lq.com/make_tower.html 
The bottom picture shows a version of the ice remover.


I sure hope there will not be this grade ice storms too often.

Also I feel sad about so many hams having to fix their stations on a
larger scale.
I hope many will be fixed for ARRL DX.

CU !


73,
Jukka OH6LI

...
>In Finland, especially up North, many stations use 'kolkutin' to clang
>against the boom.

>It consists of a wire, pulley, hinge, some iron tube (or L-profile
iron) >and some weight at the end of the iron arm.
>
>Pull the weighted arm and clang it against the boom.
>It will drop most of the ice.