{"id":2311,"date":"2021-12-13T23:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:32:37","slug":"arrl-10m-sounl-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"ARRL 10m \u2013 SO(Unl) HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2314\" title=\"sum\" src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sum.jpg 558w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sum-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a good contest. Own country worth as much points as a DX \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interesting patchy propagation. Most of the stns came in bursts suddenly popped out and disappeared quickly. There was 1 hour when the band was really open. The vast majority of the QSOs were made in this slot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Could start from 10UT due to family commitments but the real challenge started at Sat evening. A big wx front went through the region bringing severe wind. In according to the predictions, it peaks around 70km\/h but in reality, it reached 120km\/h. Unfortunately, the bursts took for unusually long, even up to several minutes making the situation pretty\u00a0 dangerous to the antennas. Never seen the short 10m Yagi elements picking up a &#8220;U&#8221; shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211212_110055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2323\" title=\"20211212_110055\" src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211212_110055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211212_110055.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211212_110055-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>The picture does not give back well how strong the wind was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sun morning I tried to keep fixed ant direction into 300 degrees to pick up the EU stns but this proved to be a bad decision. When I reached the wanted bearing the wind arrived perpendicular to the boom and pushed out significantly and started to resonate very badly. I wanted the save the contest but at this point I had to save the ant system to stay atop. I released the mast to relief the boom load then the wind pushed the system to south and kept it there. Most probably the worm gear is broken as I could not move it anymore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a last act I utilized the fixed south direction logging FR4KR but no one else heard. After this I could only watch cqcontest.net&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Topping this whole up this windy wx took all day long stopped only on Mon morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One more proof that the wind load design is not a &#8220;silly hobby&#8221;. Even tho the antennas are visibly small areas but extreme forces can build up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I need to check whether the Yagi\u2019s are still on the tower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}