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Re: [VHFcontesting] Somebody eat my moxon!

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Somebody eat my moxon!
From: k4gun@comcast.net
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:45:15 +0000
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Ate... somebody ate my moxon.  I swear, I really can spell.



-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: k4gun@comcast.net 

> I don't know who did it, but I know where it happened... roughly. Some hungry 
> tree in Delaware feasted upon my Par Electronics Stressed Moxon. I knew it 
> was 
> only a matter of time. It was right at 13' above the ground and I had been 
> trimming trees with it from FM08, down to FM27. The mast was telescoping but 
> the lowest I could get it without major re-rigging at every stop was 12'. I 
> had 
> left it at 13' because the road I intended to travel was pretty wide open, 
> without any narrow spots, likely to have overhanging trees. 
> 
> Well, that didn't work out as intended. The GPS in my truck seemed to think 
> the 
> best route to my stop in FM29, was to take every dinky little road through 
> the 
> Eastern Shore of MD and DE. Like a fool, I believed it. As a result, the two 
> arms and the reflector wire are missing and presumed dead. 
> 
> Because I am at work, I can't pull up the Par web site. Would somebody mind 
> sending me their phone number so I can order a replacement? That really is a 
> remarkable antenna. My loop worked for the rest of the contest, but not 
> nearly 
> as effectively as that moxon. 
> 
> Steve 
> K4GUN/R 
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