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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Also turned the shed M2 back to North...it had
blown to West!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Good thing I am comfortable on a roof...otherwise
this would be a very expensive hobby!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>W2TMA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>-- <BR>-------+++++--------<BR>Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -
Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [450] Storm Damage
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<DIV><BR></DIV>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!<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Thomas Moore <SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sorry about your mess Rich...Springtime is
right around the corner.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Pipe</FONT></DIV>
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[450] Storm Damage Reports</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So what kind of damage did everyone see from
this latest storm?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What a pain in the ass!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Rich</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>-- <BR>-------+++++--------<BR>"Et si omnes
ego non " (even if all, not I)</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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