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Gap Titan DX
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My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio.
-- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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VA7GEM-1470 <boat.anchor@...>
Jim
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SRI to hear about ice storm. Might be a big one as lost power here about same time with estimate of restoral in about 8hrs Barry
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:48 am, Jim K5SP wrote: My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio.
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Being in Florida I know about loosing power, just not in an ice storm. Stay warm and safe.
Charles, KI4VMK
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Been there Good thing the GAP’S are tough antennas And survive most storms
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:16 PM To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX
Jim My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio.
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Did my photo make it through? Not showing up on my phone which is only device I have with power at this time. House is all electric, so have nothing and it's getting cold (but not so much under this blanket). JIM K5SP Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "Brian (N2MLP)" <n2mlp@...> Date: 2/22/18 12:21 PM (GMT-06:00) To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX Been there Good thing the GAP’S are tough antennas And survive most storms
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From: 070Club@groups.io [mailto:070Club@groups.io] On Behalf Of VA7GEM-1470 via Groups.Io
Jim My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio. -- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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Geary McDowell
What? A HAM w/o emergency backup power. HI HI that is when I end up at the EOC 1 mile east. Did you get a lot of ice? We had about an inch of sleet, two heavy rains today so far, finally above freezing. Geary, KE5IRK Lawton-Fort Sill,OK
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote: My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio. --
When all else fails, Amateur Radio works.
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We got it bad. Trees down everywhere, my backyard is trashed from my tree, and neighbors trees. One of his pines sent a branch into the guy for the titan, almost bent it double, and then froze like that. Now maybe the xyl will see the need for the generator I have been asking for. JIM K5SP Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Geary McDowell <ke5irk@...> Date: 2/22/18 1:22 PM (GMT-06:00) To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX What? A HAM w/o emergency backup power. HI HI that is when I end up at the EOC 1 mile east. Did you get a lot of ice? We had about an inch of sleet, two heavy rains today so far, finally above freezing. Geary, KE5IRK Lawton-Fort Sill,OK On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote: My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio. When all else fails, Amateur Radio works.
-- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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Looks like you need a chain saw for all those trees. Bzzz... an antenna is safe. Probably would have been a good idea to have one of those tilt over base plates for the GAP. Remember seeing them somewhere recently. Might be a good investment about $150 for cheaper model and almost $500 for the really good one. Probably best to just replace the bent section . Hate ice storms. Had one a few years ago and the yagi elements went inverted U-shape; fortunately they thawed out back into shape. Good luck Jim ! Jerry n9avy
From: Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX We got it bad. Trees down everywhere, my backyard is trashed from my tree, and neighbors trees. One of his pines sent a branch into the guy for the titan, almost bent it double, and then froze like that. Now maybe the xyl will see the need for the generator I have been asking for. JIM K5SP Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Geary McDowell <ke5irk@...> Date: 2/22/18 1:22 PM (GMT-06:00) To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX What? A HAM w/o emergency backup power. HI HI that is when I end up at the EOC 1 mile east. Did you get a lot of ice? We had about an inch of sleet, two heavy rains today so far, finally above freezing. Geary, KE5IRK Lawton-Fort Sill,OK On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote: My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio. When all else fails, Amateur Radio works.
-- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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bowerjohn41 <poppajohnbower@...>
So sorry to hear you news, up to now we have got about 5” snow today in central NY,, heavy stuff, expect freezing rain tomorrow. It was nearly 70f yesterday! Crazy WX. John KE4JB
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:28 PM Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote:
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Wow, nice weather......!!!! I have a wonderful Titan; it is still in the box...... been that way for a couple of years.... keep saying I am going to assemble it (maybe somebody close will volunteer) ...... been using wires forever..... WX may be getting nicer in next month or so, maybe then..... Fr Richard WB8YXF
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, 3:43:41 PM EST, Jerry N9AVY <n9avy@...> wrote:
Looks like you need a chain saw for all those trees. Bzzz... an antenna is safe. Probably would have been a good idea to have one of those tilt over base plates for the GAP. Remember seeing them somewhere recently. Might be a good investment about $150 for cheaper model and almost $500 for the really good one. Probably best to just replace the bent section . Hate ice storms. Had one a few years ago and the yagi elements went inverted U-shape; fortunately they thawed out back into shape. Good luck Jim ! Jerry n9avy From: Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX We got it bad. Trees down everywhere, my backyard is trashed from my tree, and neighbors trees. One of his pines sent a branch into the guy for the titan, almost bent it double, and then froze like that. Now maybe the xyl will see the need for the generator I have been asking for. JIM K5SP Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Geary McDowell <ke5irk@...> Date: 2/22/18 1:22 PM (GMT-06:00) To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] Gap Titan DX What? A HAM w/o emergency backup power. HI HI that is when I end up at the EOC 1 mile east. Did you get a lot of ice? We had about an inch of sleet, two heavy rains today so far, finally above freezing. Geary, KE5IRK Lawton-Fort Sill,OK On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote: My Gap Titan in this ice storm. No power, no radio. When all else fails, Amateur Radio works.
-- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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WOW! Jim - sorry to hear this - have
been there myself and I know how tough it is. Best of luck in the
recovery - Lewis, K4ARE
On 2/22/2018 3:28 PM, Jim K5SP wrote:
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VA7GEM-1470 <boat.anchor@...>
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:15 am, VA7GEM-1470 wrote:
JimPower on agn es wrkg 20M Barry
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Geary McDowell
WOW, I do NOT like ice, Gainsville got it a LOT worse than Lawton-Fort Sill, this time. I prefer tornadoes any day. HI HI Geary, KE5IRK
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Jim K5SP <jinnis@...> wrote:
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Joseph <ljl2002@...>
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Sorry to hear about the bad weather. Ice is the worst. If I didn't know better I'd swear that your QTH was in New England. John got 5 inches of snow but we were below the snow and ice line so all we got was rain. We are very thankful for that. Temp on Wednesday was 70 F which broke a long-standing record. This is really weird for February in New England. We dodged a bullet but we are not resting easy. There's a saying up here that "If you don't like the weather...just wait a minute." We are waiting. Good luck with the clean-up and repairs. Joe KA1PPV #1482
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:28 PM, Jim K5SP wrote:
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