[VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?

[Joel Harrison]

My money is on a flying moose!

73 Joel W5ZN

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 3:28 PM, Ron Rogers <ww8rr at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> Maybe one of those Forestry Service or Electrical Power Co. helicopters with those long tree trimmer assemblies suspended on a tether that got too close to your tower ?
> 
> Ron
> WW8RR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces+ww8rr=charter.net at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Olson
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2023 4:19 PM
> To: Chuck Martin; Terry Price; David Olean
> Cc: 222 >> 222Activity at groups.io; vhfcontesting at contesting.com; NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
> 
> I was thinking like something more "earthly", like someone came up there poaching trees for firewood, cut a tree it hit the antenna, and they cleaned up the evidence..
> 
> Either that or a pterodactyl flew into it.
> 
> bill
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> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 8:12 PM
> To: Terry Price <terry at directivesystems.com>; David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
> Cc: 222 >> 222Activity at groups.io <222Activity at groups.io>; vhfcontesting at contesting.com <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net <NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
> 
> Asteroid?
> 
> ko1i
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newsvhf-bounces at mailman.qth.net <newsvhf-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Terry Price
> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:00 PM
> To: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
> Cc: 222 >> 222Activity at groups.io <222Activity at groups.io>; vhfcontesting at contesting.com; NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
> 
> So sorry to hear about this, just in time for winter...... Maybe there is some truth to the rumor pterodactyls really still exist!!
> 
> Terry Price - W8ZN
> Directive Systems and Engineering
> 703-754-3876
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 1:24 PM David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Today I came back from my camp only to find that my 222 MHz EME/TROPO
>> array has sustained serious damage to one side of the H frame. It was
>> working and looking just fine on Friday when I saw it last and there
>> has been zero wind since then. I mean there has been no wind!! Both
>> antennas on one side are smashed and the booms are pushed inward
>> toward the main mast. Both booms have been snapped in half. All I can
>> think of is that something big must have snagged it. A big bird could
>> not damage both of them at once. The braces have been bent sideways so
>> whatever hit it had considerable force behind it.
>> 
>> I am off the air with a directional antenna until this gets repaired.
>> The two local guys who might have helped are out of state so I am
>> alone in trying to recover from whatever damaged them. It is a mess.
>> I will be trying to figure out what to do. This is a huge disaster.
>> There is no damage anywhere else. I have no clue what happened.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Dave K1WHS
>> 
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