[450] Decided to

[Bob]

Won't they get stuck to his underwear?


On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:20 AM, K1FSY <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com> wrote:

>  Put blue loc-tite on all your nuts up there!
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> On 2/15/2015 10:15 AM, Bob wrote:
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>  Proud of you man.  Considering your conditions, quite the undertaking.
>  Is everything still up and running today?
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:54 PM, David Garcia <wb2rxf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The beams where ok physically but electrically with the ice on it, there
>> was a considerable enough performance hit, to justify putting the vertical
>> backup up. Little did I know, how good of an idea it was to go up there. I
>> found the 2 top straps had been rattled so bad by the winds, the brackets
>> were dangling by 1 nut each & the others on the floor. Got the connector
>> all soldered up and all is well, now if only this arctic air mass would go
>> the f away, things would be better, I usually like winter, but this time
>> around, I'll be saying thank you coming and thank you for leaving.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, <kc1wj at kc1wj.com> wrote:
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>>>  You're dedicated!
>>>
>>> I am monitoring .450 right now!
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>>> Quoting David Garcia <wb2rxf at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Do as the noridics do in this type of weather, spit fire & chew lava. My
>>> beams have been a pain with the ice, so I decided at 8am to put the
>>> vertical back up, myself. You can see my enthusiasm in the mirror photo,
>>> got it done in 50 minutes, then, went to plug in the coax to the radio,
>>> only to have the center pin on the pl259 snap off :( so I'm off to radio
>>> shack to get a connector & new soldering gun, then go to my cardiologist
>>> appointment.
>>>
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