[PPRAANet] german superstation dl1a bites the dust

[Jim]

Received this yesterday.
The website in the email seems to be having issues and takes a long time 
to load sometimes, but it eventually comes up.

Jim
K3ILC

Forwarded message:

Hello all, some of you may have already heard about it, but not everyone 
is following Twitter, Facebook and co. (me included):
Toffy, DJ6ZM (FOC#1946) lost *all* antennas at the DL1A contest station 
on Thursday morning, following a gale in which a guy wire of the main 
tower snapped. This big rotating tower, home of monoband yagis for 80m 
to 10m, then hit another tower, ultimately resulting in the mess you can 
see here: https://www.dl1a.de/2017/12/dl1a-qrt/
Luckily nobody was hurt and damage to the property is not substantial.
Most of you know that Toffy built up this impressive station over the
last 10 years - not in the first place for himself, but for the group of 
operators which I had the pleasure being a part of. We cannot thank him 
enough for that! After hundreds of thousands of QSOs, endless hours both 
of work on the station/antennas and on the air, DL1A is now history, and 
cannot be rebuilt at the current location.

161
Fabian, DJ1YFK

P.S.: Here's a picture of the antennas in all their beauty:
http://www.dl1a.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IMG_1086.jpg