Hi Andy,
Hi, Andy,
but your call also seemed familiar to me ;o)
Yes, it's true, on 17.07.2017, in the morning at 04:30 I had a direct hit in my LF antenna. The antenna was disconnected but unfortunately not grounded. Because of this the flash could jump over to the VHF/UHF mast, 6m away. So it was in the shack and left a smoking ruin :o((
I found parts of the 4m transverter 15m away, around the corner, which must have flown like projectiles through the shack. All 3 main fuses (63A) it "atomized". All electronics in the house were destroyed, even sockets were blown out of the wall. I could repair a lot since then but a lot is lost.
In the meantime I have also changed the QTH and only very limited antenna possibilities. But this will change in spring, when we move to a farm at the Dutch border, with a lot of space.
Then the grabbers will go online again. At the moment I'm experimenting with a frame antenna on LF/MF incl. transmission attempts, but so far nobody has heard me in WSPR. The power from the Ultimate 3 is too low, but I'm working on a small 400 W PA, with 50 - 70 W in the frame I should be heard then, hopefully ;o)))
Information about the frame experiments can be found here:
73 Joe
