[SECC] Some wind damage

[Sherman Banks]

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From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at 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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