<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Check out the video at the end.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Bill Akin" <<a href="mailto:k9ydo@comcast.net">k9ydo@comcast.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Forsyth_County_ARES] OH8X tower collapse -huge 3 ele 160m beam</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">December 9, 2013 at 8:22:16 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Bill Akin" <<a href="mailto:k9ydo@comcast.net">k9ydo@comcast.net</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Now this is a tower system that can’t be compared with
anything else. </span><span style=""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="background:white"><span style=""><a href="http://dx-world.net/2013/oh8x-tower-collapse/" target="_blank" title="OH8X tower collapse">OH8X tower collapse</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2 style="background:white"><span style="">Sunday Dec 08, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style=""><a href="http://dx-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/160m-collapse.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="391" height="391" id="yiv1067849027Picture_x005f_x0020_1" alt="http://dx-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/160m-collapse-95x95.jpg" apple-inline="yes" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1.1383829405@web181201.mail.ne1.yahoo.com"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">Few days ago <u><a href="https://twitter.com/DX_World/status/408247577822261248" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C00000">we reported the collapse</span></a></u> of the world’s
largest amateur antenna (a huge 3ele 160m yagi @ OH8X).</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">Here’s the full report by Jarmo, OH2BN:</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">While driving to the Arctic region north of the city of Oulu at
65degrees North, you will now find the wintry landscape more naked than before.
Something is missing from the landscape, a reflection of the challenges facing
the stormy and icy North. Sorrow has descended on the population of the village
of Arkala.</span></i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">It was the recent storm <a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/oskari_gives_finland_a_stormy_sunday/6963175" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C00000">Oskari</span></a> creating gusts of
up to 68 knots (78MPH) that not only knocked down the massive 330ft (100m) 40+
ton 160/80M array but also left 200.000 homes in Finland without electricity.
The mammoth structure collapsed peacefully, not hitting any of the other six
towers, not hurting people or damaging buildings.</span></i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">As professional engineering efforts had up to now ensured the
survival of this 5-year old structure, inspectors are busy trying to evaluate
the cause of the failure. It is suspected that automation designed to enable
the array to find its most comfortable position in high winds somehow locked up
and caused the structure to corkscrew. Consequently the giant crumbled down on
its on base just like the WTC building in those other sad years.</span></i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">But life goes on at Radio Arcala at OH8X and you may soon hear
Santa Claus from the North of Finland bringing you the joy of Christmas in the
form of OF9X, beaming over the North Pole on 20 meters and capitalizing on the
famous Polar Path during the Holiday Season.</span></i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">Thank you for your interest in Radio Arcala and many of its
unforgettable endeavors. In summary, we would like to share with you this short
poem and these consoling words of wisdom from the late Professor Hugh Cassidy,
WA6AUD:</span></i><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">“The grief we feel we cannot tell. A sad day it was as our tower
fell.”</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
color:#C00000">See here a short video clip with the OH8X beam before colapse:</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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