[Lowfer] Overly sensitive antennas

Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:15:40 -0600

Now that would break any antenna. You must have plenty of firewood for next
winter after all that. Did that 'possum ever come back???

Mike>WE0H
http://www.we0h.us/lf

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Dexter McIntyre
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Overly sensitive antennas

WE0H wrote:
>
> My loop survived 100mph winds last summer and even a tall aspen snagging
it
> and whipping it back and forth.
>

Let's take a 100 pound, 6 inch diameter red oak limb, coat it with 3/4
inch of ice and drop it on your loop and see what it looks like.  I'm
still cleaning from the ice storm.  I've cut two truck loads of fire
wood just from the limbs that broke around my house.  The vertical just
drooped and the counter weight pulled it back into shape as the ice
melted.

Dex

(now wondering why I told anyone the reason NC vanished last night :)