[Lowfer] WD2XKO + WD2XES on tonight

[John Andrews]

That's correct. The loop is a mess from last winter's ice storm. The top 
conductor is zig-zagging through broken branches that haven't yet come 
down, and insulation is badly abraded all over the place. A big branch 
slipped recently, and yanked the cable near the feedpoint, which caused 
contact with the tree on which the tuning box is mounted. That's where 
the arc occurred tonight.

The real solution would be to try to take down the existing antenna and 
string up a new one with new wire. But I'm not sure that it will be 
possible to actually remove the old wire due to the tangled messes in 
the upper branches. And it sure isn't safe to be out there under some of 
those trees! Every windy day brings more crashes in the woods, more than 
11 months after the storm.

John A.

Warren Ziegler wrote:
> I found that under wet conditions it was more likely for there to be a
> breakdown between the conductor and surrounding vegetation.
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