[Lowfer] Re: 600MRG> Sunday Night Full Duplex QSO

[Steve Dove]

Hi Jay,

Yes, I'll keep the Twin Grabulators of Doom in place until 
the full-duplex is a goer.  John put on an excellent show, 
though.  Check's in the mail.

We hadn't had an ice-storm to speak of for quite a while, so 
when this fairly minor one came along (maybe 1/8-1/4in. 
coating on higher-up limbs) AND the wind blew, there were 
easy pickings.  The antennas get hammered and sproinged by 
falling tree-stuff;  for the most part they'd be alright 
otherwise.  I'm sick of fixing that bloody loop!

3" caking!  Woah!  The worst I've had was at the old place 
about 1991 or so, where a 3-ele 40m KLM beam (you know, the 
ones with the linear loading ice-magnets parallel to the 
elements) caked up solid, with the elements bent in tight 
'U' shapes pointing at the ground.  Phillystran guys looked 
like ship's hawsers.  It was *lethal* to go outside under 
the trees.  Only slightly coincidentally we moved to LA for 
a while after that.

Until Her Majesty decided she wasn't too keen on hillsides 
catching fire in the summer then slithering down as 
mudslides in the winter, the ground not obligingly staying 
put like it's supposed to, and the locals' propensity to 
recreational rioting and looting.  (Quite surreal, sitting 
at home watching your city burn on TV.)  Says she:  "I'm 
moving back east.  Would you like to come?"

Pick your poison, I suppose.  Hey, wire's cheap.

         Cheers,

                 Steve



Jay Rusgrove wrote:
> Steve
> 
> Decided to let the tophat down early this time around...instead of at 5 am like last Monday morning.
> Got a couple nice lumps on the head from that. We're supposed to get above freezing for a while
> tomorrow so XGR/2 should be back in business tomorrow night.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to set up two grabbers. I'm sure we'll be making use of them shortly if
> you can leave them up..
> 
> BTW, saw the pix of ice damage at your location. How much did you get? The most I've ever seen here
> was back in the late 70's when an 80 meter dipole @ 90' came down with 3" diameter ice on it. Same
> storm made short work of a 3 element 20-10 meter quad...
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Dove" <dsp at hifidelity.com>
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Re: 600MRG> Sunday Night Full Duplex QSO
> 
> 
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Shame about Jay's antenna, but if we insist on living in the
>> US Northeast...
>>
>> Had (have?) two windows running on 'Grabulator II';  Jay was
>> there happily testing earlier, and you're trundling along
>> happily as of now.
>>
>>          Cheers,
>>
>>                  Steve
>>
>>
>> John Andrews wrote:
>>> Sorry, guys...Jay's antenna is icing up, and he has lowered the top hat,
>>> so no QSO tonight. We'll try this again in the next couple of nights.
>>>
>>> I'll run WD2XES in beacon mode with PSKFEC31 on 137.577 kHz for a while,
>>> but will have to watch the meters.
>>>
>>> John Andrews, W1TAG/WD2XES
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