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last Friday. The 20m reflector on our beam (TF3IRA) got loose on the boom, and from the manual we couldn't see how it was fastened. As we planned to get help from the Fire Dept. at Friday afternoon and we Icelanders are always at the last minute, I sent an e-mail to the company at 1300 UTC =local on Friday and at 1410 I got the reply with a picture and it helped a lot. What actually happened is that the rivets had turned loose and we replaced them with bolts as we had to do previously with the elements, but used hoseclamps there. With our strong winds here the rivets are far to be good and next summer we have to take the beam down and change all rivets with bolts. CU in the ARRL DX contest the coming weekend. 73's de TF3AO Seli (one of the TF3IRA gang) ----------- Arsaell "Seli" Oskarsson, Laekjasmara 78, IS-200 Kopavogur, ICELAND. Tel: +354-564-5760 e-mail: aosk@isl.is tf3ao@amsat.org tf3ao@qsl.net -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force 12 Web site: http://www.qth.com/force12 Submissions: send to Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe: send a blank e-mail to Force12Talk-leave@qth.com Force12Talk Message Archive: http://www.qth.com/force12/list/force12talk For problems with the list, contact n4zr@qth.com |
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