>> Just don't ask me about starting our roof/eve on fire back in
Minnesota
>> during a contest from a broken open wire feeder. Oops.
>>
>> Have a good day and 73,
>>Tom, N6BT
>Hi Tom. Been there-done that! I used a end fed zepp years back, and
one
>night I was on 20 working some DX, and my son came in and said the tree
>was on fire. The feeders were touching a branch, and started a fire.
>Also one time they got against the door jamb and burned a couple of
>grooves in it. Those wires can start fires, thats fer sure!
>Tom W7WHY
Hello Tom(s):
What power level were you using at the time? The end of my dipole is
quite close (but not touching) to a tree in my back yard.
Frank VE3FLF
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