[SEDXC] Some wind damage

[John W. Harden, Jr.]

Dear Dave,

It looks like I have a little damage myself. The Telrex stack survived 
as usual without any problems. They are virtually indestructable. 
However, an end-piece came off one end of the Force 12 80/75 meter 
rotary dipole. This is not surprising as the rivets just do not hold up. 
I have heard many reports of this happening all over.

This antenna works quite well (2 phone frequencies and 2 CW frequencies 
with the 2-relay relay box). However, I had to completely re-engineer it 
to get it to work.

Saw your call in the DXCC honor roll list at the #2 position. I wonder 
if you need BS7 as I do.

73,

John, W4NU

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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