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| Through Wednesday night, 1-6-04 and Thursday morning, 1-7-04 we had freezing
rain that set records for this QTH. My main wire antenna was a 400' foot long
dipole, up about 60' between an alder and a cottonwood tree. All that is left to
show of the big dipole is a short run of the ladder line feeder as it crosses a
clump of blackberry vines. All else is on the ground and burried beneath snow and
ice. The antenna had a system of ropes and pulleys with weights that would let the antenna
sag all the way to the ground if it needed to. This storm built ice so fast that the
pulleys turned into solid blocks of ice before the antenna could reach the ground, it had to break.
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| The 10 meter beam is doing a bit better, a little droop in one element but still up there! |
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| Of course, there is the indestructable J-pole, none the worse for wear and it is
still usable even with the ice! It is located above an fm broadcast band
antenna and a little piece of the 10 meter beam extends into the picture on the left. |
| I put up a horizontal vee wire antenna to get through the rest of the winter with.
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