[ADXA] Ice Storm

[WB5JJJ]

As I posted on our ARVARF page a couple days ago, I had about 1/2" of ice
on my EFHW's.  It appeared that the white (30m) wire had more ice than the
rest of the black insulated wires did.  Perhaps heating from this minimal
sun made the difference as the black absorbed better than the white.
Anyway, my "door springs", bungies and pulleys did the trick.  All were
sagging, but they stayed up.  None of my wires are really pulled tight on
purpose.  My Mosley was sagging, but not nearly as much as I've seen it do
in the past.  Once again, I just plain lucked out.  How many more ice
storms will I survive before I become a casualty like our friend Joel.  My
ARRL insurance policy is up for renewal in March.  Always to a
reassessment each year and adjust accordingly.

73's
George - WB5JJJ


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On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 8:11 AM Chuck R. Korzendorfer <ckorz at multi-craft.net>
wrote:

> Joel,
>   Looks like you had it a lot worse than the NW part of the state.  A bit
> of ice, but no loss of power.
>   Have you heard any chatter about the Russian DX contest that is
> scheduled for mid March?  I wonder if there will be any kind of boycott or
> other symbolic gesture?  There have been several stations on 20M this
> morning on CW transmitting that the UBA contest was cancelled due to the
> war.  Obviously our Ukrainian friends are off the air.
> Chuck KM5G
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 26, 2022, at 7:29 AM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
>
> 
>
> 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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