[TowerTalk] High VSWR

[john at kk9a.com]

That is a bad and sad accident but again lucky no one was injured by a
falling object or a cable snapping back. Wow, that is a tough environment.
Take a breather and I am sure you'll move forward again.  The tower and
rotator should be able to handle anything that you will likely put up plus
it looks like it is an RF quiet location.

73,
John

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy 7 edge, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:53 PM Doug Ronald <doug at dougronald.com> wrote:

> Wind is the reason. I get usually two storms in the winter with BIG winds.
> My anemometer at about 20 feet has had the cups blown off it with a 116 MPH
> reading. Even this military antenna with a 120 MPH survival rating has had
> the back two elements tear loose once, and the rear-most element tear loose
> twice. The local weather people reported a 136 MPH gust last winter at a
> nearby location.
> W6DSR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mal Speer [mailto:malco at carolina.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:29
> To: 'Doug Ronald' <doug at dougronald.com>; john at kk9a.com;
> towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
>
> What a shame, sorry to see that. How about one of the SteppIR antennas as a
> replacement.
>
> 73 de Mal WA2TWA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Doug
> Ronald
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 1:25 PM
> To: john at kk9a.com; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
> Importance: Low
>
> Aware that the hoisting cable could break, or the winch fail, or some other
> unforeseen event could happen, I made sure no people or animals were in the
> fall zone.
> My expensive mistake was not torqueing the hoist cable's clips tight
> enough.
> The rope didn't break, it slipped through all 4 of the clips, plus the 2
> more on a safety tail wrapped around the mast.
> I may replace the LP with a conventional 20 m ham Yagi as someone
> suggested,
> or put a nice 10 kW wind turbine on the undamaged mast tube.
> Doug, W6DSR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> john at kk9a.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:06
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
>
> I guess you're referring to the photo on http://www.qrz.com/db/w6dsr
> showing
> the damaged log periodic.  Many years ago after getting frustrated with
> Hy-Gain's toy ham rotators they sent me a commercial catalog.  They made
> very heavy-duty rotators but I never wound up buying one. It appears that
> either your mast became unlatched or it fell during tilting. What a shame!
> It looks like you had other mechanical issues even before this. Many of us
> including myself have also had expensive antenna failures so don't give up
> just because of this. I assume that no one got hurt or killed and hopefully
> the towers, rotator and possibly the mast are still OK.
>
> GL!
> John KK9A
>
>
> Doug Ronald W6DSR wrote:
>
> Hmmm, my VSWR came up a little high this afternoon, see my QRZ page to see
> why.
>
>
> Actually, I shouldn't joke about it - I'm totally devastated.
>
>
>
> 73 all,
>
> -Doug Ronald, W6DSR
>
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