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

[k3sk at buckwalter.co]

>From what's been on TV lately, its possible a low flying UAP (former UFO) flew into it.

de K3SK

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Olson <callbill at hotmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:19 PM
To: Chuck Martin <chuck at martinrf.com>; 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; 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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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>
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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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