[SADXA] Weather conditions and antennas

[Jerry Wothe]

Same thing happened a couple of days ago but with not as much rain. The 
booms on the antennas are are at right angle to the direction of the 
wind and they really get a bow in them in the wind yet the truss system 
pulls them back into line. I wonder how many times they will take that 
before something awful happens?


On 7/29/2016 8:06 PM, Thomas Kramer wrote:
> Not sure how fast the wind was but big blow here.  My Hf Lpa has changed
> heading by 45 degrees.   Better than grinding up the gears.   Not so much
> rain yet.  73 Tom
> On Jul 29, 2016 7:57 PM, "Jerry Wothe" <jdwothe at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Tonight is one of those night when I am very glad my antennas are cranked
> down and stowed for the Monsoon season. Had it been up I may not have an
> antenna now. We had very high winds preceding over an inch of rain much of
> it coming horizontally and it is still raining nearly two hours into the
> storm.
>
> I watched my antennas as the wind really whipped them around yet they held
> but it was scary. One can only watch for a while when that is happening. It
> looks like all is well here.
>
> Any one else get the big wind tonight?
>
> W6XI
>
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