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Originally Posted by kennyc
Damnit! I just broke my vertical Amateur Radio Antenna! I was getting a small tree out of the way (too close to the house) and the damn tree fell the wrong direction and broke the antenna into two pieces as well a damaging a couple of matching coils/capacitors. 
At least the tree is down though... |
That's pretty exciting because that gives you the excuse for a whole new antenna. I had a sixty foot telescopic mast with a 5 element yagi pointed at Japan in '77 when the wind came up and the bloody thing bent like a banana. The only way to bring it down was to inform all the neighbors to evacuate while I did it. Not pretty, but I wish the amateur radio magazine had returned my 35mm slides to show you what a sixty foot mast looks like with a 5 element yagi gasping for a resurrection. ( it was borrowed) amazing how well you can bend aluminum back to shape. The owner was told but still on-sold it later.
I later made many cubical quads. I made them for Hams that didn't believe in real antennas. They believed after that. You know what. Think I'm at an age that I could possibly supervise a cubicle quad for sub 10 Meters.
Sorry, just being an old ham.