I hope the “half” that is left is the “good half”.

:>))

From: Bruce Frahm K0BJ [mailto:bfrahm@st-tel.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:40 AM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: 'high cost' W1AW antenna project ?

Congrats on completion of the tower project! However I was alarmed (very briefly :-) ) to read of the apparent injury to an intrepid member of the board family in the process.....

73 Bruce K0BJ

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/11/01/100/?nc=1

NEWINGTON, CT, Nov 1, 2006 -- Can you hear us now? W1AW's typically strong signals may be pushing S meters a tad higher now, following the replacement this fall of nearly every one of the station's antennas (see sidebar). The last major upgrade was in 1989. Despite the wear and tear inflicted during numerous New England winters, the old antennas -- installed on four towers at the W1AW site adjacent to ARRL Headquarters -- had been getting the job done reliably. Even so, replacing all of the aging aluminum had been on the agenda for a while, W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, said, but it was the loss of one-half of a director on a 20-meter rotatable Yagi at the very top of the 120-foot tower that pushed the project to top priority.