[R-390] Hurricane Matthew

[Alan Victor]

No Hurricane that touches the mainland is a non event. I am in NC. And am
very lucky my house was not destroyed or flooded.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Don Heywood <wc4g at knology.net> wrote:

> Larry, that comment below about a non-event storm was for the last storm,
> NOT Matthew. I sent that comment to Russ on Sep 2. He put it on the R-390
> reflector yesterday, now everyone is confused like you were. Matthew was no
> non-event...I added the reflector to clear up the confusion about ‘storms’
>
> I moved inland to one of my sons house Friday, I was able to return Sat
> afternoon, against orders to remain off the roads. (I feel guilty, sorry
> Govenor)
> My tower is still up but I lost an element off of my Tennadyne 6 element
> log periodic. The tower remains standing tall. Lots of down limbs off local
> neighborhood trees. I don’t know how bad the wind was here, but the
> Charleston Air Force base 3 miles away recorded a 79MPH gust. The tower is
> Rohn 25, 55’ with phiistran guys at two levels. The base is in concrete.
> Everything is fine now.
> 73
> Don
> Charleston, SC
>
> From: Larry H
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 3:56 PM
> To: Don Heywood
> Subject: Hurricane Matthew
>
> Hi Don,  Glad the storm was a non-event for you!
>
> Regards, Larry
>
>
>
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> From: "wb3fau55 at neo.rr.com" <wb3fau55 at neo.rr.com>
> To: Don Heywood <wc4g at knology.net>
> Cc: R-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 3:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Band Switch Rocking (a new activity)
>
>
> Hi Don,  how right you are  about the switch rocking.  I am now working on
> the original Motorola RF deck from  the project 390A.  The unit we  last
> fixed is a Stewart-Warner RF deck.  So I had the intermittent gearset out
> of this deck and put it in another deck,  something else wrong  with this
> one, so I put it back in the Motorola.  So using the method of  measuring
> resistance reading on bands 0 thru 7 it works fine, running the switch
> clockwise.  Running it back counterclock wise,  it misses  the reading in
> the 2 to 4 range unless I rock it  back and forth.  So I do see some
> backlash in the gears, as likely the problem.  But this is an old 58
> contract item. The  gears are gummy with dried up grease.
> So I am cleaning up all this.  Lot of fun,  but it will look nice and work
> good when done-hi.
> ---- Don Heywood <wc4g at knology.net> wrote:
> > Russ, more on the bandswitch... I have found that when I don't use one
> of my
> > 390's in a while I need to rock the bandswitch to get good signals. I
> think
> > you know that the bandswitch only moves between 'octaves', not with each
> MC
> > change. So what I do is rock the MC knob several times at the point
> where I
> > know the bandswitch will move. It moves between .5 and 1MC, then from 1
> to
> > 2MC and then 2 to 4MC, etc.  I will rock the MC knob between 1 and 2, 3
> and
> > 4, 7 and 8 and 15 and 16. This is where the switch moves. This sometimes
> > cleans up the switch. Hope I did not confuse you.
> > Don
> >
> > The storm is gone,  just another media-hyped non-event at this QTH
> >
>
>
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