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From: "Holger 'Geri', DK8KW" <geri@dk8kw.de>
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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:59:21 +0100
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Subject: LF: Re: [500] GM4SLV Grabber
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Hello John,

sorry to hear that your antennat came down in the storm. I know the feeling,
I have lost my LF/MF antennas during heavy winds a couple of times (if your
antennat didn't comedown during the last storm it was not yet high enough
;-) ... hope you are able to set it up soon.


Your grabber si very helpful to me to observe the signal variations of DI2BO
on 505.015 kHz.

Best 73

Geri, DK8KW / DI2BO




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pumford-Green GM4SLV" <gm4slv@sighthound.demon.co.uk>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: LF: [500] GM4SLV Grabber


>
> Hello LF group,
>
> Althought I've been very inactive over the last month or so (my last
> QSO was on 28th Nov on 500) I've kept the grabber running. I've been
> busy with other things and radio has taken a back seat for a while.
>
> Unfortunately the grabber is out of action at the moment due to antenna
> damage.
>
> Shetland has been in the teeth of a severe storm for the last 24 hours
> (not unusual) with winds of continuous force 8 and periods up to 9 and
> 10. My fibreglass pole usually handles these storms quite gracefully,
> even if it looks alarming as it flexes in the wind, since it's guyed at
> 4 levels from 2m up to 11m.
>
> This morning however I woke to find one of the pole sections had
> snapped just above one of the joints. I've braved the elements and
> lowered the whole antenna to the ground until I can obtain a
> replacement pole section from Spiderbeam.
>
> The wind is still howling at force 8 - 9 so I'm not intending
> venturing out to investigate the cause of the failure until the storm
> abates...
>
>
> Regards and I hope to be back QRV (both with the grabber and on the
> key) in the near future.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> -- 
> John GM4SLV
> IP90gg
> Clousta, Shetland
>
>