[ADXA] High Winds in Searcy

[Jussi Eloranta]

Pretty windy here too (gusts around 40mph) in NE Arkansas. Antennas are 
still somehow up but the beam seems to be turning with the wind. Oh 
well, as long as it stays up!


Jussi (aa6kj)


On 3/19/25 2:08 PM, Lanny Aldrich wrote:
> Scott:
> I spoke too quickly.  We have intermittent high winds which have 
> already blown over two neighbors' trash barrels.  I went out and 
> righted both parking them tight against their garage doors and with a 
> bush for protection in both cases.  Walking back up the driveway I saw 
> my 160M shorty sloper loading coil dangling in the breeze . . . with 
> no wire attached!  I went out back and found that a neighbor's dead 
> tree limb had broken off and fallen in my yard snapping off the 70' 
> wire up at the coil.  I was able to swing the limb around and keep it 
> from hitting our doghouse.
> 73, Lanny  K1LEC
>
> PS  I just heard my next-door neighbor's barrel overturn again!
>
>
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