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From: "Jay Rusgrove" <JRusgrove@comcast.net>
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Mike

Good luck with the repairs. Will keep an eye open for you.

Very little EU > US TA activity this year compared to previous ones. Condx have been slow to improve
since the December solar activity.

Jay W1VD / WD2XNS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:29 AM
Subject: LF: Antenna fixed


> I have been off the air since the storms two and a half weeks ago.
> The masts sufferred no damage but one of my top wires tangled in the
> end of a tree branch. Although the branch end was only the thickness
> of my little finger, it was impossible to separate it from the wire.
> Dislodging it was made even more difficult by my antenna being
> designed to be very flexible with plenty of elastic (bungy) that
> prevented me from giving the wire a really good pull.
>
> It was finally dislodged with a combination of brute force and
> weakening the branch by applying RF volts to burn it! This has taken
> two weeks.
>
> I still need to lower my masts (impossible up to now), check for
> damage and straighten some bending cause by the brute force, but I
> should be fully operational and beaconing for DX within a few days.
>
> Mike, G3XDV
> http://lf.apersonalguide.co.uk
>
>