[OKDXA] Ice Storm

[John Geiger]

Wow, you got it worse than we did.  We got the 1/2 inch of ice or so, but no sleet, and only a light dusting of snow that has melted off of the streets already. Lots of branches and power lines down, though.  I have been lucky in that we power has only been off very briefly, and only when we were asleep or out of the house anyways.

Good luck to everyone with the cleanup.

73s John AA5JG


--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Coy Day <n5ok at arrl.net> wrote:

> From: Coy Day <n5ok at arrl.net>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Ice Storm
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:27 PM
> 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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