[450] Storm Damage Reports

[Rich]

Cleanup and maintenance today.... managed to repair the FM Yagi, it is held together now by twist ties but still works! I put it up fixed aimed at jazz station WBGO in Newark, not as high as it was before but at least I still have an outdoor antenna for FM.

Replaced damaged bracket on the main stack and adjusted and tightened everything. Nice and strong now but not quite vertical...off by a few degrees but I can live with that. When I get a chance I will try and re-mount the Scanner antenna and the 6 meter vertical. Dont quite know where I am gonna put them, but I'll figure something out.

Also turned the shed M2 back to North...it had blown to West!!

Good thing I am comfortable on a roof...otherwise this would be a very expensive hobby!!

W2TMA
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David McKenzie 
  To: 144.450 Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [450] Storm Damage Reports


  I lost an antenna too. Remember that vertical dipole I built out of EMT and a wooden dowel as the insulator? Well, it finally gave out! Snapped right at the dowel and came tumbling down the 8 feet it was off the ground. Ruined!


  On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Thomas Moore <piper925 at att.net> wrote:

    A lot of Hemlock needles to sweep up.  Before the blow I took 2 of the 3 sash weights off the end of my doublet wire rope....good thing too, with the trees blowing wildly the remaining sash would swing about 12ft up and then down to smack in the mud. That doublet would have broke like a 10 yr old high e string on Steve Vai's guitar.
    Sorry about your mess Rich...Springtime is right around the corner.
    Pipe

    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Rich 
      To: 144.450 Mailing List 
      Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:58 PM
      Subject: [450] Storm Damage Reports


      So what kind of damage did everyone see from this latest storm?

      I lost my 10 meter beam, FM broadcast yagi, 6 meter vertical and I took down the radio shack scanner antenna because it was endangering the 2/440 Vertical. I can replace it later.

      Luckily when 4' tripod blew over it landed against the pine tree branches, which acted as a cushion. The only antenna that is probably destroyed is the FM Yagi. Everything else I managed to salvage and should be able to re-mount at some point.

      I almost blew off the roof when I went up to untangle everything! I probably should have waited till after the storm but I wanted to minimize the damage and get everything takien apart before it fell down completely. Bob you will be amused to know that the ladder blew down while I was on the roof, so I had to wait for my dad to come home. Luckily he only went out to get the paper.

      What a pain in the ass!

      Rich


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