[ADXA] Ice Storm

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Greetings ADXA Folks.

I hope everyone survived the ice storm. We were hit pretty hard here 
north of Searcy at the W5ZN QTH with between 1/2" to 3/4" of ice. We 
were without commercial power for around 48 hours. Wasn't a real issue 
as we have a big Generac generator that runs the whole house but our 
high speed internet goes down without power so we were disconnected from 
the world, so to speak!

All of my RX antennas are on the ground and the HF yagis are actually 
Ugis......U-shaped yagis. Will definitely need some repairs once the WX 
warms up. We had literally no thawing yesterday. Temp out here did not 
get above 29 deg even though the sun popped out, or pooped out, for 
about an hour.

8Q7MW has been on 160 meters and that is the last zone I need for my CQ 
WAZ 160 award. I also need it for a new one on 160. Thursday I spent 
about an hour stomping around on the ice out in the field to get at 
least one RX antenna up, the NE Beverage. 8Q was on that night but I 
didn't make it through the pileup. My 160 TX antenna is crap right now, 
covered in ice with a high SWR and no directivity. They are sked to be 
there until March 8 so hopefully there will be some warm up today and 
tomorrow to get rid of the ice on the TX array.

So, hope everyone fared well.

Now on to planning antenna repairs!

73 Joel W5ZN
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