[VHFcontesting] 222 Night Summary K1WHS

[David Olean]

It was a wild night Ellis,

I had to quit just about 8 PM. The storm was getting closer and I was 
seeing 25 dB of static noise on the antenna. That is not good. The last 
time I saw that, my preamp got hosed. So I shut down and left the shack, 
driving down the hill.  I had no food in the house and had not eaten 
anything, so had the stupid idea to see if I could get a take out meal 
down in Sunny downtown Milton, NH. Big mistake. IT started raining while 
I made the short drive. Then it started with a deluge and I could not 
see anything due to al the rain. I turned around and slowly headed home, 
but many tree limbs were in the road. At one point there was a rather 
large tree and all sorts of foliage in the road.  I started looking up 
hoping that I would not get hit by  a similar tree on the way down.  I 
had to drive over a downed tree to get home. No way I was going outside 
as it was a downpour and very windy.

Not sure how many made it into the log.  From memory I recall K1DY, 
WA1T, WA1MBA, GB Ron WZ1V, K1PXE, WW1Z, W9KXI,  W1AUV, WA3NUF, K1ZK, 
WB2VVV, K1FSY, WA3DRC, KA1OJ, K2RMX, and WA1NLG. When I got home, I was 
surprised to see the lights were on.  The roads were covered with leaves 
and branches. I hope next time is better. Between the rain static and 
lightning crashes I could not hear much.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 7/17/2024 8:37 AM, Ellis Foley via NEWSVHF wrote:
> Yep! oh woe was me! last night, I was tweaking and loading out things for 222 nite and everything went black!!! Yep ! lost power last night during the storm and it was out for over 8 hours. I was thinking about not operating during the storm but would set up just in case. but the storm made the decision for me. And we have another prediction for some more nasty storms today so lets hope we do not get a repeat of last night. So ! will see you all on 222 nite next week! 73 All !. de EllisWA1RKS
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