[Hallicrafters] Storm Damages Antennas, Saturday Net Questionable

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Roger, 	
	
I am presuming these are the gas filled Poly Phasers in line between the rigg
and the antenna. What are you grounding it to? I put mine outside the shack very
close to the ground rod. 	
	
I do not know what you are running for a tx on 2m, but if it is solid state, it
should have shut down if the swr was greater than 3:0:1 In some cases, 2:0:1	
	
Duane W8DBF	


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From: rdhalste <rdhalste at tm.net>
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Storm Damages Antennas, Saturday Net Questionable
Date: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:00 PM


We had similar storms through here...(I'm only 50 miles NNW of Duane), but
having only been in bed an hour when they hit, I sorta made note of their
passing, hollered at the hail for making such a lound noise on the roof and
tried to go back to sleep through the almost constant flicker of lightening.

All antennas survived, including the *big* ones.

We received 1 3/8ths inches of rain in roughly two hours.
We started pouring concrete by 9:30 AM under a beautiful blue sky.

BTW, I had noticed swinging those big stacked 12s on 2-meters 90 degrees to
the repeater (which is only 7 miles away) would make it almost uncopyable
and my signal would also be noisy.  I figured that was a tad too directive
to be realistic...so early last night I checked the SWR and found it to
be...shall we say, at tad high...OK...two tads.  A bit of searching found
the PolyPhaser(lightening arrestor for those unfamiliar with PolyPhasers)
shorted. No wonder I had such a poor signal.  I use these on all the
equipment including the antique Hallicrafters "boat anchors".

I figure that happened earlier this spring when a lightening strike
basically totaled one of the computers.  But the rig tied to the antenna
that was hit, survived.

Roger (K8RI EN73)
WWW.RogerHalstead.com
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair? S#CD-2


>
> A tremendous thunderstorm roared through southeastern lower Michigan early
this
> morning. Our local Sky Warn spotters reported seeing tornadic patterns as
near
> constant flashes of lightning illuminated the 4:00 AM EDT darkness. Winds
in
> excess of 60 mph, nickel size hail and H2O by the dump truck full woke all
of us
> up earlier than planned. An inspection of the premises revealed one
antenna
> totally down and another badly twisted by the strong winds.
>
> I managed to get the bulk of the damage repaired today and will be testing
the
> antenna systems later tonight. However, because my primary forty meter
double
> bazooka was among the casualties, I 'MAY NOT' be on the air for the
Saturday
> June 1st HCI 40 meter Net.
>
> If not, perhaps one of you can sit in the NCS chair?
>
> The pre-Net will begin at 12:3-0 PM EDT, (1630 UTC). The Net proper, will
> commence at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC). The frequency will be 7.280 Mhz lsb
+/- for
> key clicks, mike splatter and the sound of Duane trying to bride the
Squirrels
> into tying the nylon UV resistant rope around the tree trunk instead of
chewing
> on it!
>
> I hope to be there to hear you. So if you hear this puny voice crying CQ
from
> the wilderness, it will probably be me.
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
> netcontrol at w9wze.org
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