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Subject: [SECC] Some wind damage
From: ku8e at bellsouth.net (ku8e@bellsouth.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 09:53:27 2003
  I guess we lucked out and missed that big storm down here near Columbus......
  Although.. I really don't have any "big" antennas to blow down HI

                Jeff



> 
> From: Gary McConville <wb4sq@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/07/25 Fri AM 09:23:40 EDT
> To: secc <secc@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] Some wind damage
> 
> Poor yagis.  My 'flexable' quad came out unscathed.
> 
> Gary - WB4SQ
> 
> --- Jay Pryor <jpryor@uga.edu> wrote:
> > I lost my 40M dipole in the storm, which is not a
> > big deal.  However, 
> > yesterday afternoon I discovered that on the way to
> > the ground it took part 
> > of the roof mounted tribander with it.  I don't know
> > yet how serious it is, 
> > I'll find out Saturday when I go up for a look.
> > 
> > 73,  Jay/K4OGG
> > 
> > At 12:27 AM 7/25/2003, David L. Thompson wrote:
> > >The wind that blew through on Tuesday did some
> > damage to my KT34XA.  The
> > >front tri-band director was turned sideways and
> > about 20 degrees vertical.
> > >One side is Ok but vertical but the other side is
> > bent about 2 feet out on
> > >the  main aluminum tube at about 50 degrees.  Looks
> > like I will need a 1" by
> > >72" piece of aluminum.  I looked through the
> > manuals and updates but no
> > >mention of the type of aluminum (suspect 6061). 
> > Any one have any ideas?
> > >
> > >I also lost one side of my 80 meter half square. 
> > Fixed that and the other
> > >side broke off pulling it up.
> > >
> > >My neighbor lost two big trees and I have not found
> > any other damage.  I do
> > >notice the parasitic 10 meter element on the KT34XA
> > is slightly off
> > >horizontal but that is it.  Sure must have been
> > some wind on the director to
> > >actually twist the boom to element clamp and bend
> > the 1" aluminum.
> > >
> > >73 Dave K4JRB
> > >
> > >
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