[Lf] wind damage at wa2xtf/6/ (Return trip)

[TK Wood]

Gentlemen and fellow LFers:

I stopped by the Jockeys' Ridge Sand Dune weather station today (3:30pm) after a stopever in Manteo for the local brew (Weeping Radish). The highest wind recorded in the past 24 hours was 51.8mph.  Air temperature at the time was 0 degrees C. 

To our European counterparts  - thank you for the valuable assistance during this past LF holiday.  I learned a lot.  The entire AMRAD LF team will have valuable feedback for you  which perhaps leads to future transatlantic LF QSOs's.  Let us hope.

Tracy Wood
K7UO // Sterling Virginia USA


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: hal <halfei at erols.com>
Reply-To: halfei at erols.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:15:37 -0500

>
>
>Sorry to report that I had to shut down wa2xtf/6 tonight (Monday) at
>around
>5 PM when I discovered it was drawing only five amps and (significantly)
>
>making a slight arcing sound.  Usually, the transmitter draws about 18
>amps
>even with slight mistuning.  I suspect wind damage to the antenna since
>the same winds passed here that were experienced at Nags Head
>
>--Hal.
>
>
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