{"id":3127,"date":"2025-01-03T01:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:25:58","slug":"it-was-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"It was close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My Dad is the permanent onsite inspector for the antennas and the station. On 2\/Jan after lunch he gave me a call claiming the 80m vertical has an unhealthy shape and it&#8217;s close to collapse due to an unknown reason. Sent the picture below made his claim very concrete. Considering that my history in the &#8220;wind vs. vertical&#8221; topic is quite long I jumped into the car and 2 hours later the troubleshooting started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an unbelievable way the lowest section of the vertical tubing climbed off from the teflon insulator to the _<em><strong>upward_<\/strong> <\/em>direction and was standing on top of the insulator without any anchorage. Even a very small wind gust might have been enough to push it off and the n+1th time of destruction might be occurred again. Fortunately arrived in time and could push the tube back to the proper place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have been thinking for long how on Earth this could happen. Had no better idea than in the past years every wind made a mm by mm steps towards up and after a while it reached the top. I clearly remember when the last vertical build happened I was thinking if a cross screw is needed to fix it through the insulator but this idea was ruled out claiming &#8220;this might be physically impossible to move it up by itself&#8221;. This is when the reality proves that even the impossible might be possible after a while. Now an M6 through is anchoring the vertical tube to the teflon element.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250102_154835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3128\" src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250102_154835.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250102_154835.jpg 576w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250102_154835-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250102_154835-300x533.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"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=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}