[SECC] Some wind damage

[Gary McConville]

Poor yagis.  My 'flexable' quad came out unscathed.

Gary - WB4SQ

--- Jay Pryor <jpryor at 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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