I was pretty happy Friday morning that my antennas pretty much survived
Thursday's storm. I checked them all out around noon and took a nap. I
got up from my nap around 3 pm local to find it snowing and around 2 inches
of ice/snow on the ground and 0.5 inches on my antennas and guys! I found
out that Kt-34s don't like being covered with ice: SWR on 15 and 20 was
slightly over 3:1. I was feeling really bummed when I realized that,
unlike W2GD I still had power and undamaged antennas. I also couldn't go
SOA as I planned because I couldn't hear any of the FRC nodes with ice on
the 2 M beam. The ice finally melted of the tribander around 1700Z
Saturday. Anyways, here's the bottom line:
Band Qs Cs
160 10 9
80 69 43
40 109 62
20 268 96
15 459 99
10 359 104
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1310 413 ===>1,623,090
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