Yeah, but Steve, you know how we blind guys operate, don't you?  Always 
trying to beat the odds and prove em wrong!  (HI!  HI!)

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: 40-meter Net, February 5


Tom,

Didn't anyone ever tell you that snow drifts make lousy antennas?

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 20:36
Subject: Re: 40-meter Net, February 5


>        Thanks for the round table report, Lloyd, and also thanks again for
> taking the lead this afternoon.
>
> I found out what the problem with my Windom was.
>
> After the round table was over, the XYL looked outside and found the feed
> line for the antenna lying on the ground in the snow.  The end of the
> feed-line, which originally was connected to the feed point via a pl259
> connector was all charred and burned.  What was lying on the ground was
> just
> the coax with the bare center conductor.  I suspect that the PL259, in
> whatever shape it is, is still up at the center of the antenna.
>
> My theory is that moisture must have gotten in there from our latest
> storm,
> and caused a short.  I can't figure out what else might have happened.
>
> I thought we had sealed the center connector well with coax seal and
> electrical tape, but obviously not.
>
> I'm not sure when I can get someone out here and up on the garage roof to
> lower the mast and check things out first-hand, so it may be a while.
>
> Fortunately, I still have my trusty Alpha Delta DXCC antenna, which at
> least
> will get me on 40 through 10 meters.
>
> Will look for everyone on 14.258 for the Cross-country blind ops net
> tomorrow afternoon.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 8:18 PM
> Subject: 40-meter Net, February 5
>
>
> The following 22 stations checked in today on 7198:
>
> W3IUU
> K1EIR
> WB9R, harold, Taylorville, IL
> WA9TOP
> WB9SLM
> W4HC
> KA9YIU
> KB8TYJ
> WD8INW
> K1EIC
> KW3A
> KB3UAK, Mark, PA
> KK2DOG, Mike, Watertown, NY
> VO1RYN
> WA1RTB
> K5TAH, Indiana
> KD8MWR, Lew, Cincinnati, OH
> WA4CNI, Dean, Asheville, NC
> KZ5AT, artie, (station in Erie, PA, remoted from Costa Rica)
> W2TAW, Tom, Vincenttown, NJ
> K2ALS, Steve, near Cooperstown, NY
> W8JOD, John, Youngstown, OH
>
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>