[OKDXA] Dangit!

[Kim Elmore]

I have  set of K9AY receive loops for 80 and 160 m. They are not even 
close to what I'm told a Beverage antenna can do to help with low-band 
receive, but they do help sometimes. Apparently a deer ran through it 
sometime today: my wife came home and saw that it was leaning because 
one of the lines holding the loop had failed. She went inside briefly, 
came back out to tie it off temporarily and it was down. Of course, the 
weather doesn't look good for putting it back up any time soon. Maybe 
Sunday... No worries about rain or snow, but there's wind and cold.

Just when I can see my way clear to some operating time in the evening 
during conditions that favor nothing but low bands and... This. Sigh.

Oh, well! See you in the pile-ups!

Kim N5OP

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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./