Hi Joel,

Sorry to hear about the antennas. 

Here our furnace gave out again for the second time this year and we are going to replace the whole system soon!  Thank god our gas stayed on and so did the electric.  We have a gas fireplace so even though it was cool inside, it wasn’t too bad.  The backyard in the grass is like walking on concrete! 

The antennas are OK, but then again I have nothing like the amount or size of your station. 

I hope you don’t get too much damage!  73 de jay..

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Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2022 7:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ADXA] Ice Storm

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