[OKDXA] Ice and antennas

[Roger Simpson]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Redmon
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 1:43 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Ice and antennas

No ice accumulation of note here in Wichita Falls. Jim in Sulphur
reports the same there. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you folks.

Bob K5SM

On 12/21/2013 12:48 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> Out shopping, but stuff looked scary droopy. 2 el on 40 m and a KT-34A can 
> gather a lot of ice. Unless it backs off soon, I may lose them. They were 
> still up when I left an hour ago, but the icicle loading is collecting 
> very fast...
>
> MX,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as 
> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>
> On Dec 21, 2013, at 12:44, Rick vidmar - k9kk <k9kk at atlinkwifi.com> wrote:
>
>> About the same here in South Norman.
>> The SteppIR elements are sagging A LOT.
>> And the 160-80-40 meter vertical guys have 1/2 inch of ice.
>> The fireplace is keeping us nice an cozy.
>> 73 Rick K9KK
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/21/2013 12:40 PM, John Geiger wrote:
>>> Hope everyone's antennas are making it through the ice storm ok.  Here 
>>> in Lawton we have between 1/4 to 1/2 inch of ice on stuff.  The MFJ 6 
>>> meter elements are sagging pretty good, but they are very flexible and 
>>> will snap right back after the melting.  The 2m beam looks ok so far. 
>>> The streets are ok but a few tree branches are down as well.
>>>
>>> 73 John AF5CC
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>From K5RKS  Oklahoma City
2030UTC     21 Dec

The longer elements on my log periodic are sagging a lot but so far they 
have not broken.

The eyelet at the top of my balun on my 30-40m Inverted V gave way causing 
the apex of my inverted "V" to fall down about ten feet. Right now the balun 
is dangling in mid air with only the coax holding it off the ground. The 
coax is still in the coax loops which are located at four places along the 
length of the tower.

I have a crankup tower here which, when fully extended, is 33' feet high. 
Before the storm I cranked it down to about 28 feet. I didn't crank it all 
the way down because according to the storm warning the expected conditions 
were "only some ice and not strong winds". My tower is now frozen at the 28 
foot height. I can't crank it either up or down. Once things thaw out I'll 
assess the situation.

My log periodic "looks" OK visually from the ground. It may or may not have 
some type of problem which will be evident once I try to test it with an SWR 
bridge.

I took some damage documentation pictures of my mini-antenna farm here a few 
minutes ago. I'll have them up on my website within a couple of days. My 
website is simpsonfamilyokc.com.

73  Roger