[Towertalk] Explain this!

[Carl - WC4H]

Ehhh... would you believe an optical disillusionment?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Otten" <res0958z@verizon.net>
To: "Scott Detloff K8DX" <ni8l@raex.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Explain this!


> Yeah......one hell of a static charge maybe??
> 
> Bill KC9CS
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Detloff K8DX" <ni8l@raex.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:17 am
> Subject: [Towertalk] Explain this!
> 
> 
> Woke up early this morning from the high winds and rain, not
> to go down to the shack to listen for VK9ML on 160M :-)
> As I often do when we have high winds, I came downstairs and
> took a look outside to see how the antennas were surviving.
> You have a tendency to do this when you've had a tower come
> down :-)
> 
> I spotted something "glowing" about  the spot where my SW wire
> vertical for the 80M 4SQ is.  At first I thought it was an animal,
> and I was just seeing its eyes, but it wasn't moving, and turning on
> the lights on in the back of the house didn't scare it away.
> 
> I took out the binoculars and could definitely tell it was the at the
> base of the vertical that was glowing at the point where 120+ radials
> run up through a 2" white PVC pipe into a Rubbermaid box that
> holds an aluminum plate that connects all the radials.  Even though
> it was completely dark out, wind still blowing, and raining,  I could
> see the 4 X 4 post that everything is attached to, as well as the plastic
> box with a dull white glow.  I watched it for another 15 minutes or so,
> then went back to catch a little more sleep.  There is nothing to reflect
> off
> of.  Inspection of the vertical this morning shows nothing out of the
> ordinary.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Scott Detloff K8DX
> Paris, Ohio
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