Tornado again

[lonestarbandit]

Whelp beams wreaked. Again. This time tornado hit us dead on. Touched down in my yard. Wrecked all my neighbors and some of me. Im under the funnel. Luckily my roof stayed on unlike my neighbors. Fence, trees, beam and other propery destroyed. Luckily I was herding wife, 4 cats and a pitbull into an interior bathroom and no loss of life. Shit can be fixed. God is good and my imax survived.

 

[AudioShockwav]

Glad to hear you are ok.

73
Jeff

 

[SuperLid]

That's some scary sheet! I am thankful, those events are scarce in my part of the woods. Glad to hear you made it through.

 

[lonestarbandit]

 

[lonestarbandit]

IMAX survived. Tornado rated!

 

[SuperLid]

IMAX survived. Tornado rated!

How that antenna made it and a brick and concrete pedestal gets knocked over, is beyond comprehension!

 

[lonestarbandit]

How that antenna made it and a brick and concrete pedestal gets knocked over, is beyond comprehension!

Well not really. Wind loading right? Not much surface area on Imax? Also was a lot of heavy debris being thrown around... the mail box may have been hit by some.

 

[SuperLid]

Well not really. Wind loading right? Not much surface area on Imax

Well not really. Wind loading right? Not much surface area on Imax? Also was a lot of heavy debris being thrown around... the mail box may have been hit by some.

I would have thought the tornado might turn the imax into a javelin.

 

[lonestarbandit]

It turned my vquad into a pretzel....thats the 3rd one..... sigh. Hope I can get insurance to cover it.

 

[SuperLid]

It turned my vquad into a pretzel....thats the 3rd one..... sigh. Hope I can get insurance to cover it.

Damn, that sucks. Have you tried the Y-Quad? I wonder what they are like, is why I ask. I have not owned a Maco antenna that I have used myself.

 

[Brother DXer]

Glad you and yours are all ok!!

 

[lonestarbandit]

Thanks Brother.

 

[lonestarbandit]

Damn, that sucks. Have you tried the Y-Quad? I wonder what they are like, is why I ask. I have not owned a Maco antenna that I have used myself.

I have not tried the Y quad. Due to a small rotor I have used a VQ3 destroyed by wind, and two smaller v quads 1 by a near miss tornado and one by straight line winds. For my available mounting area the vquad is only thing that both fits and gives gain of a 3 element. If the weather Gods would stop chucking devastation at me I'd be happy. I'll buy yet another vquad as I love their performance and light weight (again due to mounting constraints)

 

[Greg T]

Holy crap!! Glad to hear you're okay. Be safe!

 

[SuperLid]

I have not tried the Y quad. Due to a small rotor I have used a VQ3 destroyed by wind, and two smaller v quads 1 by a near miss tornado and one by straight line winds. For my available mounting area the vquad is only thing that both fits and gives gain of a 3 element. If the weather Gods would stop chucking devastation at me I'd be happy. I'll buy yet another vquad as I love their performance and light weight (again due to mounting constraints)

I asked because a friend asked me about it. He had a PDL II back in the day and he wants something like that. I have no experience with the V quad setup. I have only had Yagi's.