[SEDXC] Ivan

[Dave Johnson]

Not so lucky here John.  We had a tornado or a down burst or something here and it messed things up good.  My 140' tower with the 6 over 6 on 20 meters came down and of course, destroyed the antennas.  My 100' tower with the 6 over 6 on 15 meters was about to come down because it pulled one of the guy post over but I went out there and pulled the tower back up with my farm tractor.  I looked like a drowned rat but it had to be done because if that tower had fallen it would have hit the house. When the 20 meter tower fell it hit the bottom 15 meter antenna and broke the boom on it.  We had no damage to the house and I am thankful for that.

You know the old saying, "If your antennas are not damaged in a storm like that, they are not big enough". HI HI

73,  Dave - K4SSU