[VHFcontesting] [222Activity] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?

Tue Oct 3 13:57:45 EDT 2023

Thanks     Trent,

I am making good progress. I had a helper this morning, and we got the 
2nd yagi down. They don't look bad except that both antenna booms are 
broken and bent in towards the center of the array. What ever moved the 
booms came out of the northwest.  I am working on fixing yagi #2. Yagi 
#1is already to go back up. I am working out a simple way to re install 
the yagis. The top one could use some sort of  gin pole with a crane 
arm.   The yagis are pretty heavy.

Dave K1WHS

On 10/3/2023 1:15 PM, Trent N4DTF EM55 wrote:
> Dave I am so sorry to hear this.
>
> I have two thoughts.
>
> 1) The prospect
> Of living Pterodactyls is absolutely terrifying
>
> 2) please don’t shimmy up the tower alone.
>
> 73,
> Trent
> N4DTF
> EM55
>
> trentfleming.com
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>> On Oct 2, 2023, at 7:22 PM, Terry Price - W8ZN <terry at directivesystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> Only if the moose drink some of those Margaritas you and Tom were making, Margie still can't see straight.......
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5znjoel at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:41 PM
>> To: Ron Rogers <ww8rr at charter.net>
>> Cc: Bill Olson <callbill at hotmail.com>; Chuck Martin <chuck at martinrf.com>; Terry Price <terry at directivesystems.com>; David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>; 222Activity at groups.io; vhfcontesting at contesting.com; newsvhf at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
>>
>> 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
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>>> 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>;
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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>
>>> 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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