Thanks Trent,
I am making good progress. I had a helper this morning, and we got the
2nd yagi down. They don't look bad except that both antenna booms are
broken and bent in towards the center of the array. What ever moved the
booms came out of the northwest. I am working on fixing yagi #2. Yagi
#1is already to go back up. I am working out a simple way to re install
the yagis. The top one could use some sort of gin pole with a crane
arm. The yagis are pretty heavy.
Dave K1WHS
On 10/3/2023 1:15 PM, Trent N4DTF EM55 wrote:
Dave I am so sorry to hear this.
I have two thoughts.
1) The prospect
Of living Pterodactyls is absolutely terrifying
2) please don’t shimmy up the tower alone.
73,
Trent
N4DTF
EM55
trentfleming.com
On Oct 2, 2023, at 7:22 PM, Terry Price - W8ZN <terry@directivesystems.com>
wrote:
Only if the moose drink some of those Margaritas you and Tom were making,
Margie still can't see straight.......
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5znjoel@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:41 PM
To: Ron Rogers <ww8rr@charter.net>
Cc: Bill Olson <callbill@hotmail.com>; Chuck Martin <chuck@martinrf.com>; Terry Price
<terry@directivesystems.com>; David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net>; 222Activity@groups.io;
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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
My money is on a flying moose!
73 Joel W5ZN
On Oct 2, 2023, at 3:28 PM, Ron Rogers <ww8rr@charter.net> wrote:
Maybe one of those Forestry Service or Electrical Power Co. helicopters with
those long tree trimmer assemblies suspended on a tether that got too close to your
tower ?
Ron
WW8RR
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2023 4:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
I was thinking like something more "earthly", like someone came up there
poaching trees for firewood, cut a tree it hit the antenna, and they cleaned up the
evidence..
Either that or a pterodactyl flew into it.
bill
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Subject: Re: [NEWSVHF] Why me Lord? What is going on?
Asteroid?
ko1i
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<newsvhf-bounces@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Terry Price
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 4:00 PM
To: David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net>
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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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