That's a pisser. Did it actually snap the fiberglass pole?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:
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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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.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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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That's less than 3 cents a day.
If it would only be 35 degrees warmer here, it would be freezing.
Sounds like the insurance Alex Trebek sells.
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Whinny bitch.
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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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That will buff out. Just use some duct tape to fix the crack and get on the air!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:
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.
Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
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