[Lowfer] Band Conditions

[Bill Ashlock]

>Last night VD was in and out starting around  2000 local
>right on 185.301.00 as usual. Tuesday I saw a few traces of
>WA.

Larry, WA was knocked of the air yesterday by a large tree falling on the 
N/S loop (RG-58). Darndest thing happened with the coax: I found ~150 ft of 
it all coiled up (well not too neat) at the base of the support tree on the 
opposite side of the loop from where the tree went down!  The fallen tree 
must have have pulled the wire so tight that when the wire broke it must 
have recoiled with a bunch of force. The downward pull on the coax from its 
own weight must have initiated the coiling action once it broke, and the 
other end shot into the air.

At noon today I re-connected and resonated the E/W pipe loop rather than 
re-install the coax. (Still too windy)  Good thing the tree fell parallel to 
THIS loop.  As a comparison of the Rac for the two conductors (RG-58 and 
.62" OD CU pipe), I had to reduce the Vcc by almost half in order to 
maintain 1w.

Laurence: I was thinking about you and what 25A would do to John 40 mi to 
the west. <GGG>

Bill A

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