[ADXA] Ice Storm

[Earl]

Good Morning Joel,

Sure hate to hear of your damage from the ice. Here I did not have the 
amount of ice you did but did have about a 1/4'.

The beams were definitely dropping, some relief  from the sun yesterday, 
but got some more ice last night. One of the truss ropes is broke on the 
driven element on the 40m beam.

Will have to come down this spring. But it has been up for 19 years so 
probably needs maintenance anyway.

I am also chasing 8Q7MW but on 30m, he was strong this morning but the 
SWR was too high due to icing to work him. :-((

Just hanging in there, working DX when I can.

73, Earl N5ZM..



On 2/26/2022 7:28 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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