[South Florida DX Association] Highlands County Damages ???

[Bill Marx]

>From the FCG Reflector. Thanks Pete N8PR!
-Bill W2CQ

"I stopped at Vic's on my way to  Arcadia which was really
hard hit and begging for help.

Vic is OK and His house and all 4 towers are OK   He lost a
> few elements on the antennas and the 4 square on 80.
> He had a lot of trees down and will have firewood for yrear.
> Told me that Fred, Joe and Dave are all OK, too.
> 
> When I got to Arcadia and the EOC location, there were
> several hams going around in circles and trying to get
> organized.  I helped with a trunking setup so that the
> police and fire had use of their own frequencies.  After I
> had been there much of the day about 15 hams showed up from
> W. Palm Beach, Sarasota and Port St. Lucie.  They brought a
> very nice 90 ft aluma tower on wheels.  Put up a good
> vertical on it, but they did not have the control for the
> electric crank up winch !!  UGGG ! It still worked pretty
> well at about 25 feet.   Got communications running
> smoothely with two 2 meter rigs, and HF rig and several
> others on standby.  At that point, things were pretty well
> under control with the new arrivals heading out to the
> shelters for the night.
> 
> I then went back to Highlands County near Vic's and helped
> out there for a while, at a shelter, even giving away  the
> extra 10 Gals of Gas and 6 cases of water I took with me.
> Finally got home just before midnight.  I'll sleep well
> tonight.
> 
> 73, PeteR"
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <K1to at aol.com>
> To: <fcg at kkn.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [FCG] Highlands County Damages ???
> 
> 
> | In a message dated 8/14/2004 8:59:31 AM Eastern Daylight
> Time,
> | n8pr at bellsouth.net writes:
> |
> |
> | > I have tried to call Vic, Fred and Joe on the landline
> and
> | > it appears that the LL services are out.
> | >
> | > Has anyone heard if they are OK??
> | >
> |
> | I spoke to both Vic and Fred last night.  They are
> physically OK.
> |
> | Vic had several pines that grazed the house and he lost an
> element from the
> | top 20M beam and something else happened to one of the
> 40s.
> |
> | Fred lost 3 antennas, including a pine that fell on his
> second 6M beam on the
> | ground.  His house is OK.
> |
> | Joe told them that he lost all of the pines in the front
> yard.  No word on
> | his antennas.
> |
> | 73, Dan
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