We Could Talk About The Weather

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Quite a storm, it got pretty windy here last night—windy enough to take down the fiberglass mast supporting the southeastern end of my 40m dipole even though I'd slackened it up considerably:

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No big, just no 40m operations for a while. I have a 40' steel mast I can use to replace it but the bastid is heavy and I'll need some help getting it set up.

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That's a pisser. Did it actually snap the fiberglass pole?

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

That's a pisser. Did it actually snap the fiberglass pole?

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It was a 30' stack of eight those fiberglass camo support sections. One of them split at the junction point. I can't complain, they cost me only a buck apeice and lasted three years.

Same as the 9 i used for my firrst helically wound 160 meter antenna.
I used hose clamps just to prevent that from happening and it worked as well.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

It was a 30' stack of eight those fiberglass camo support sections. One of them split at the junction point. I can't complain, they cost me only a buck apeice and lasted three years.

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That's less than 3 cents a day.

If it would only be 35 degrees warmer here, it would be freezing.

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

That's less than 3 cents a day.

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Sounds like the insurance Alex Trebek sells.

Whinny bitch.

Too hot to sleep. Too soon to ditch the blankets. Too this, too that, too too.

Too + too + too too = 8. OU812? Yeah, I'm going stir crazy with this nasty weather and it shows.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Quite a storm, it got pretty windy here last night—windy enough to take down the fiberglass mast supporting the southeastern end of my 40m dipole even though I'd slackened it up considerably:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/1...991a768e8b.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/1...5f0e244424.jpg

No big, just no 40m operations for a while. I have a 40' steel mast I can use to replace it but the bastid is heavy and I'll need some help getting it set up.

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That will buff out. Just use some duct tape to fix the crack and get on the air!