[EIDXA] N0YY QRT

[reheinri at rockwellcollins.com]

It happens to everyone...

Yesterday afternoon I worked VK9WWI for a new one on 30 M.

Last night, my tower blew over in what appears to be a swirling gust of 
over 100MPH.  Folded over in the middle.  So if anyone is interested in 
stainless steel hardware, I will have a bunch.  But if you are looking for 
any straight aluminum, don't bother it is all crumpled.  Tower folded at 
about the 30 foot point and it fell to the NE.  Interesting, the Chrome 
Moly mast appears basically straight so I can only assume that it was a 
relatively slow fold, but all the antennas on top are busted up pretty 
bad.  The new D3W between the 40M beam and the tribander looks like a 
pretzel - so something really strange happened during the fall and when it 
hit the ground.

But that was only a 5 minute glance this morning.  And of course we lost a 
couple more trees too.

Hope everyone else made out better than me.

Rick N0YY