Thanks Randy, our windstorm was under a clear sky long after the rain left, like EJ said..unexpected. The v repair just took minutes…I do need to go by tractor supply and get a roll of 2” horse fence….the 1” won’t handle 1kw …next winter a different 75/80 meter antenna…I hope?!
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On Dec 19, 2025, at 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:



Congratulations to  Bertha and the great job she did!  We had a nasty looking front roll through here yesterday afternoon. It left a bunch of limbs down in the yard, but no other damage. I suppose it is natures way of letting us know that a bonfire would be real nice this time of year. Hope the Inv V is an easy fix. 


Merry Christmas

Randy/W5ZJ





On Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 at 8:10 AM, Charles McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
 
To: ej jones; [email protected]; 'adxa'
Looks like the 75-80 inverted v has an issue, everything else ok, at about 8:00 local power went off, 2 auto circuit breaker retries power back on for about 20 mins then in the dark, circuit breaker tried and barely got a flicker, when we looked NAEC  had 2500 customer's out of power so I put Bertha on line, went to sleep, utility back up when I got up at daylight...Hope all are OK and warm

73
KF5TL

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of EJ Jones <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2025 7:57 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; 'ADXA' <[email protected]>
Subject: [ADXA] Unexpected windstorm
 
We had an unexpected windstorm last night starting about 9 o’clock. Power was out for a couple of hours and a lot of limbs down. Preliminary on the antennas looks OK but I’ve got a go walk around this Morning to check the beverages. I hope no one else had any damage.
EJ.