Topband: Antennas down at VE3CV - Ice Storm!

2013-12-25 Thread Jeff Wilson
Well the ice storm did a job here.  My DXE 5 band hexxbeam looks like a bowl of spaghetti...just one broken spreader tip! My main mast that supports the 80 doublet I use for 160m and my 80m delta loop broke in the middle and is lying on top of the steel workshop where the main shack is. Will

Re: Topband: Antennas down at VE3CV - Ice Storm!

2013-12-25 Thread Eddy Swynar
On 2013-12-25, at 9:40 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote: Well the ice storm did a job here. Hi Guys, Well, the truth be known, I haven't uttered so much as a single peep on Topband at all this season: the dual knee replacements of last July here have left me in constant pain in both legs, while

Re: Topband: Antennas down at VE3CV - Ice Storm!

2013-12-25 Thread Bruce
No power here yet. Yesterday 75 % of Belfast residents without power, today 50%. Large number of power line-men from all over now here to give up their Christmas to help those with out heat. Antenna condx here lot of unknown. A modified song title for all the family guys. The WX outside is

Re: Topband: Antennas down at VE3CV - Ice Storm!

2013-12-25 Thread Mike Waters
I had ice here in SW MO, but not that bad. One wire on one 2-wire Beverage broke (at a weak spot), and the Inverted-L wires got stretched, but that's apparently all. Still have to fix it. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Antennas down at VE3CV - Ice Storm!

2013-12-25 Thread Russ Tobolic
Same bad news here in West Michigan.  3/4   ice toppled the 60' mast holding my inv V that had been up for the last 12 years, and also brought down one leg of the T xmit antenna with other leg drooping badly.  I still have 1/2 ice coating the vertical section and it won't tune.  It may get up