[OKDXA] Ice Storm

[Jerry Chouinard]

Had I not seen the photos of that major storm a couple of years back I 
would have
to ask "What do you mean better than usual?"  HI.  Pointing straight down 
sounds
a bit spooky.

K5YAA

At 03:27 PM 1/29/2010 -0600, you wrote:
>Doing better than usual here with at least an inch of ice on all metal
>surfaces.  The element ends on the T-10 are pointing straight down at the
>ground with the weight of the ice.  Same with the rotatable 30 dipole.
>Two of my three 160m half wave slopers are on the ground.  Only the SW
>sloper still up but coated with this inch of ice, so I'm sure it won't
>load.  Guess that takes care of the 160m contest this weekend.  Rats! :^(
>Ground has an inch of ice with about 4 inches of sleet on top of that and
>now another 4-5 inches of snow.
>
>Coy
>--
>Coy Day, N5OK
>20685 SW 29
>Union City, OK 73090
>405-483-5632
>
>
>
>
>John Geiger wrote:
> > How have other's antennas fared in the ice storm so far?  All of mine are
> > still up, but the 6 meter yagi looks like a series of inverted vees right
> > now.  The tree holding up one end of the dipole is about 2/3s on the
> > ground now, but luckily the branches holding up the antenna are still up.
> > Hope everyone else came out of it as best as could be possible.
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> > Lawton
> >
> >
> >
> >
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