[450] BA's
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At 10:40 PM -0400 9/17/11, WRIP-FM Studio wrote:
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>Not sure whether this reflector will render
>embedded pix, but here's a medium double mozz
>for ya:
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>Jay
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>
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>From: <mailto:partybug at charter.net>Leslie Busino
>To: <mailto:450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>'144.450 Mailing List'
>Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [450] BA's
>
>I hope this did not render you without a residence?
>
>I too am happy you are okay. That is what is,
>ultimately, the most important thing.
>
>BesidesŠŠwho the hell would be my Pizza Fairy??????
>
>From:
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>[mailto:450-bounces at lists.vhfwiki.com] On Behalf
>Of Thomas Moore
>Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:32 PM
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>Subject: Re: [450] BA's
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>Sorry to hear about that Jay, but like Rich said, glad you're alright.
>
>Similar thing happened to my friend Rocky in
>Danbury when the Still river did its thing years
>ago....all under water for days in a flooded
>basement until he could return home.
>
>Again like Rich said, he soaked the gear in a
>bathtub and got all the silt out. Manually dried
>the stuff and locked them in a room with fans
>and dehumidifier going for weeks before trying.
>
>A lot of the stuff came back to life. Thing is,
>it wasn't vintage stuff. The transformers may be
>suspect. He also checked with FEMA who were in
>Danbury at the time and was told they won't help
>out with peoples "toys". Didn't matter he was an
>active MARS member and FEMA was a MARS customer.
>
>Good luck with everything Jay.
>Pipe
>
>--- On Sat, 9/17/11, Rich <<mailto:t41 at optonline.net>t41 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
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>From: Rich <<mailto:t41 at optonline.net>t41 at optonline.net>
>Subject: Re: [450] BA's
>To: "144.450 Mailing List"
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>Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 3:49 PM
>Hey Big Guy, sorry about your misfortune. Glad you are OK though.
>
>if you have somewhere to keep them, my advice
>would be to wash them off with clean water and
>let them dry out. Then you could haul them up to
>Nearfest and sell them for parts. You won't get
>much but at least they wont go in a landfill.
>
>Again, sorry to see all the damage up there in your neck of the woods.
>
>Let me know if you need a hand.
>
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>From:
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>Studio
>Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 3:39 PM
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>Hi Folks:
>
>Three weeks ago tomorrow, my area of the
>Northern Catskills, a mountain valley about 35
>miles west of the New York State Thruway and 50
>miles southwest of Albany, was hit by the heavy
>rains and winds of Tropical Storm Irene.
>
>Some 14 inches of rain fell inside of ten hours
>during the early morning hours of Sunday, August
>28th. The storm surge overwhelmed spillways,
>culverts and the single creek that feeds the New
>York City Watershed system. The single
>waterway, known as the Batavia Kill, runs
>through five mountaintop towns and hamlets,
>Including Windham and Prattsville - two of the
>hardest hit areas situated along the Batavia.
>
>Through the early morning of August 28th,
>incredible amounts of runoff and debris quickly
>filled the creek bed. The water kept coming,
>and by 8am we had a quarter mile-wide four to
>eight foot river that engulfed homes and
>businesses along its path. Two homes collapsed
>and washed into the creek. More than 70
>trailers were washed away. One woman was killed
>when her trailer split in two and she was pinned
>against a tree with 70mph waters and debris.
>
>Propane tanks, lumber, cars and even
>construction equipment were swept away in a
>matter of minutes. That's how fast this water
>rose.
>
>I'll never take flash flood warnings lightly again..
>
>My apartment is above a three car garage on the
>banks of the Batavia Kill in Windham. Had I not
>left late Saturday night for the radio station
>with a suitcase of clothes, my meds and a few
>necessities, I would have been stranded inmy
>apt until Monday morning.
>
>I'm writing here because I am sorry to report
>all of my boatanchor transmitters and receivers
>were inundated by the floodwaters and silt for
>over four to five hours. They were all sitting
>on a pallet in my garage. I had no renter's
>insurance or flood insurance.
>
>FEMA's inspector took pictures and an inventory,
>but informed me that the agency has "one price"
>for radios when it comes to renumeration for
>loss, so there might as well have been clock
>radios on that pallet.
>
>So - before sending these rigs to the junk pile,
>I will offer them to anyone in this group who
>feels they might find a home with someone who
>might even be able to restore them, for
>themselves or pay it forward to a ham or JN in
>need.
>
>Some of the gear includes a National NC-300
>receiver, A Johnson Viking Valiant, a TRL Globe
>Scout TX (cherry before the flood), two Johnson
>Rangers (one in need of a TX/wafer switch, the
>other a parts rig, a Heathkit Apache Rx, and a
>Hammaulund SP-600 JX-17 (military) that had been
>completely re-capped by the OM up in Pomfret
>Center CT years back (Antique Restoration).
>Most were in boxes and overwrapped but I have
>not moved anything or inspected anything since
>the waters engulfed everything.
>
>One caveat is that the silt left behind on and
>in theis gear is not something you want to
>handle with bare hands. I moved a couple of
>items with my bare hands for the FEMA inspector
>and my hands burned and itched for two days.
>
>So - discuss among yourselves if you want to
>decide who gets what or who will be a
>responsible party to at least give these rigs
>some attention before deternining their fate.
>I go back with Tom (Pipe), Bob UJS and Rich for
>some years and despite only having limited 2M
>simplex QSO's from my fav spot over in Westerlo
>with the loop stack, I know we have a great
>group of hams here.
>
>Gotta scoot - that's the latest from the Mountaintop.
>
>
>Jay
>N1UJT
>
>
>
>
>Jay Fink
>Vice President & General Manager
>WRIP-FM 97.9 & 97.5
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