[TowerTalk] Strategies to reduce ice damage?

[Chuck Dietz]

I remember the Army putting a voltage on a rhombic to melt ice on the
wire.  Maybe a heat strip of some sort on or in the boom?

Chuck W5PR

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:39 AM Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> We don't get many ice storms here but had a good sized one a couple of
> years ago - 1" radial plus snow.  I observed my high yagis (above tree
> tops) were nearly clean, my guess is there was just enough wind to keep
> them moving.  Lower antennas were very heavily loaded, but all survived
> ok, a bit to my surprise.
>
> So am wondering if periodic rotation back and forth might be a good
> strategy?  It would be nice if an app on the pc or code in the
> controller had "icing mode" so I don't need to stay up all night.
>
> Any experiences and techniques worth sharing?  It looks like next week
> is headed towards perfect ice storm conditions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Grant KZ1W
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