[CQ-Contest] Big storm zaps 80m antenna

[Leeson]

Congrats to the leaders in today's CW Sprint, well done!

I wanted to note that the big new storm here in Northern California 
damaged our 80m 2-el wire Yagi during the contest. With Trey, N5KO, 
operating, it developed repeated SWR surges and intermittent reception. 
The amp flipped off multiple times, and worked only at low power.

This is an apology to Trey, who had a great run going, and also to the 
stations who had to ask for repeats. Something is really wrong with the 
antenna, and the station obviously wasn't fully functional on 80m.

The antenna worked fine at full power through last week up to today, but 
this Level 4 storm blew in during the contest and really broke 
something. A big disappointment, sigh...

73 de Dave, W6NL/HC8L