[BULK] - [TowerTalk] Fla. hurricane news?

[Steve Katz]

	I worked Ivars, KC4PX from Merritt Island, FL Monday evening 9/6.
He was operating mobile on 20 meters (or maybe it was 17?), on his way "back
home" after the latest hurricane.  

	Ivars is an active contester, and he asked me to let people know he
would *not* be on the air for the ARRL January VHF SS because he lost all
his antennas in the hurricane.  His house is okay, and they were moving back
in, but he still had no power, no internet, etc.  And no antennas!

	Ivars is a very "big signal" on 50 MHz and up from eastern FL, and
his big signal will be missed in this SS.  Hopefully, he'll have everything
back together soon...

	WB2WIK/6

> Shannon,
> 
> Sure am sorry to read about the disaster.  That's the antenna killer:  the
> 
> continuous battering for hours and hours.  What a total disaster Florida 
> hams are going through, not to mention everyone else there.  I guess if ur
> 
> roof flies off your antennas are the last things on your minds.
> The ARRL insurance is probably gg to get a lot of tower claims from hams
> in 
> Fla.
> 
> Are there any reports Fla. hams would care to share or is it too soon?  I 
> guess you all probably have too much else going on to do any writing, 
> especially with another one on the way.
> 
> GL es thoughts are with you.
> 
> Rob/K5UJ
> 
> <<<To:  "Towertalk at Contesting. Com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:  [TowerTalk] Hurricane, antenna farm
> From:  "Shannon Boal" <Kingsautomotive1 at alltel.net>
> Date:  Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:00:53 -0000
> List-post:  <mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>
> 
> Well, Frances is tearing up my antenna farm. The Rohn 25 is fine, but the
> Gap Challenger is challenged. My 60 foot irrigation pipe vertical is in
> pieces. The wind shook things for so long that fatigue set in. The gusts
> were not over 70mph or so, but the duration... I fear it may be
> "curtains",
> for the sterba curtain. The beams were on the ground, and big quads, too,
> so
> they are OK. This is such a big storm, it is tearing hell out of the
> trees,
> and it is 130+ miles away!
>    Unbelievable! Now we are in for maybe 36 hours of the same, plus much
> heavier rain. I really feel for the Bahamians, as they caught it much,
> much
> worse. I still have a phone line, no power, of course. It will be a while
> for power, they have only just finished patching together a system after
> Charley. On towers, the only anchor that will hold will be one that has
> enough mass on it's own; anchors don't hold in wet earth.
>         Getting worse, gotta go
>                         Shannon Boal K4GLM
>                           Waldo, FL>>>
> 
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