By John Lindholm, W1XX
Lew McCoy, W1ICP (SK) often said that if an antenna didn’t at some time fall down, it wasn’t up high enough. Seemingly, my 160 meter T-vertical with 72 feet vertical was high or tall enough. Here’s the result of the recent ice/snow/rain/wind storm where winds were recorded at 70 mph on Block Island. I can see Block Island (but not Russia) from my house. I think we’ve seen this story before.
It’s been over 3 years since CTRI manpower raised the antenna at a CTRI pre-meeting…so members willing, after repair, hopefully we can schedule a CTRI meeting again at my house for an antenna raising. We’ve always had great attendance at the W1XX venue, so we’ll plan on hotdogs and hamburgers again in the near future. Thankfully, I made it through the CQ CW and SSB 160 Contests unscathed before catastrophe.
Hope all your antennas made it through the storm. 73!!
Ouch. 3 years is a good run especially with all the wind we’ve had this and last year. Let’s plan on an improved model!
John W1AN
This has been what seems a very unusually windy late winter.
The “improved model” John refers to means higher of course!
Sounds like we’re going to have a lot of parties this summer.
James k1sd