Terry may not be that far off ...
What if a large bird , say an owl or a large hawk or an eagle tried to land
out on the front of one of the antennas and that 20lb bird with some
forward motion caused the boom to flex enough to collapse and then it
attempted it again on the lower antenna with the same results. I have had
both large red tail hawks and an eagle pearch on my array and I'm surprised
it held them. When they took off the whole array did quite a dance.
73
Fred
N1DPM
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 4:12 PM Chuck Martin <chuck@martinrf.com> wrote:
> Asteroid?
>
> ko1i
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newsvhf-bounces@mailman.qth.net <newsvhf-bounces@mailman.qth.net>
> On Behalf Of Terry Price
> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:00 PM
> To: David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net>
> Cc: 222 >> 222Activity@groups.io <222Activity@groups.io>;
> vhfcontesting@contesting.com; NEWSVHF@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
>
> So sorry to hear about this, just in time for winter...... Maybe there is
> some truth to the rumor pterodactyls really still exist!!
>
> Terry Price - W8ZN
> Directive Systems and Engineering
> 703-754-3876
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 1:24 PM David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
>
> > Today I came back from my camp only to find that my 222 MHz EME/TROPO
> > array has sustained serious damage to one side of the H frame. It was
> > working and looking just fine on Friday when I saw it last and there
> > has been zero wind since then. I mean there has been no wind!! Both
> > antennas on one side are smashed and the booms are pushed inward
> > toward the main mast. Both booms have been snapped in half. All I can
> > think of is that something big must have snagged it. A big bird could
> > not damage both of them at once. The braces have been bent sideways so
> > whatever hit it had considerable force behind it.
> >
> > I am off the air with a directional antenna until this gets repaired.
> > The two local guys who might have helped are out of state so I am
> > alone in trying to recover from whatever damaged them. It is a mess.
> > I will be trying to figure out what to do. This is a huge disaster.
> > There is no damage anywhere else. I have no clue what happened.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Dave K1WHS
> >
> >
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