Just posting a real 'after' shot would have shut people up (well, most, as
you say).

Anyway, still glad it didn't come down. My only beef was ever the
neighbours - since they aren't in sight (and I notice you don't seem to have
your house near it either) I say go for it.

Cheers.

Ken

"Charlie" wrote in message
...
There are no distortions Ken. The tower looks the same the day before
Dennis as it does now the day after. The WHOLE POINT in using 2 identical
photos was to illustrate that there IS NO DIFFERENCE after the storm.

I have been on Usenet for 20 years or more and it is always the
same....people just wait in the wings to take pot shots at others. I
posted a link to the tower photos and all I got was ridicule and cuss
words.

Now that it survived the affects of hurricane Dennis I get accusations
that Dennis never even came near my home.
You guys can all go fish..or any other "F" word you might be able to think
of.

Sorry to rob you all of the splendor of viewing my new tower down on the
ground.

You ****ers are all a bunch of real sick *******s.

--

Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Deep South 2 Meter SSB Net
www.deepsouthnet.net





"Ken Taylor" wrote in message
...
"Charlie" wrote in message
...
Because the images are virtually the same..even if I stepped outside and
shot a "true after" picture it would be the same image.

Sorry to disappoint all you guys but there was no damage here.....as all
but a very few "tower experts" predicted.

--

Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Deep South 2 Meter SSB Net
www.deepsouthnet.net


Charlie, you may have noticed that the thread died once people realised
you are out of town and not endangering anyone else. Good on you for
putting up a tower out there, what the hell, eh? But the distortions
aren't exactly helpful.

More to the point, how's the DX'ing? I used to have to go to a nearby
mountainside road to get any height like you have now.

Cheers.

Ken

Charlie wrote:

I have been on Usenet for 20 years or more and it is always the
same....people just wait in the wings to take pot shots at others. I posted
a link to the tower photos and all I got was ridicule and cuss words.

You'd think your twenty years of Usenet experience would not have failed
you like this.


Sorry to rob you all of the splendor of viewing my new tower down on the
ground.

You ****ers are all a bunch of real sick *******s.


No one wants your tower to fall down, nor harm to you or your family.
But you basically posted troll fodder and then have the audacity to
whine when it's not the attention you so wanted.

If you don't like the heat, don't post stupid things on Usenet.

"Charlie" wrote in message
...
There are no distortions Ken. The tower looks the same the day before
Dennis as it does now the day after. The WHOLE POINT in using 2 identical
photos was to illustrate that there IS NO DIFFERENCE after the storm.

I have been on Usenet for 20 years or more and it is always the
same....people just wait in the wings to take pot shots at others. I
posted a link to the tower photos and all I got was ridicule and cuss
words.

Now that it survived the affects of hurricane Dennis I get accusations
that Dennis never even came near my home.
You guys can all go fish..or any other "F" word you might be able to think
of.

Sorry to rob you all of the splendor of viewing my new tower down on the
ground.

You ****ers are all a bunch of real sick *******s.

--

Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Deep South 2 Meter SSB Net
www.deepsouthnet.net


Yeah, this is definitely my last post on the thread.

Charlie, you are a damn liar. If you go back to the record, you will find
that I responded with cogent comment regarding legalities of encroachment,
concerns about mechanical stress and inadequacies of base planning. For
whatever personal reasons you have, you are incapable of accepting the
realistic analyses that you requested.

Here Chuckie, print this and post it on your wall: You've got one tremendous
tower, good buddy, and I'm proud to say that I live 2000 miles away from it,
and you!

--
Ed
WB6WSN
El Cajon, CA USA

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:44:23 -0500, "Charlie"
wrote:

There are no distortions Ken. The tower looks the same the day before Dennis
as it does now the day after. The WHOLE POINT in using 2 identical photos
was to illustrate that there IS NO DIFFERENCE after the storm.

I have been on Usenet for 20 years or more and it is always the
same....people just wait in the wings to take pot shots at others. I posted
a link to the tower photos and all I got was ridicule and cuss words.

Now that it survived the affects of hurricane Dennis I get accusations that
Dennis never even came near my home.
You guys can all go fish..or any other "F" word you might be able to think
of.

Sorry to rob you all of the splendor of viewing my new tower down on the
ground.

You ****ers are all a bunch of real sick *******s.

What a bunch of passive-aggressive crap. If you really wanted
to make the point, you would have posted an honest "after" shot, not
your smartass little duplicate.

Charlie wrote:

Because the images are virtually the same..even if I stepped outside and
shot a "true after" picture it would be the same image.

Sorry to disappoint all you guys but there was no damage here.....as all but
a very few "tower experts" predicted.

If they are two different pictures why do they have the same file name?

Dave N

Hey, Charlie, glad to hear your tower suffered no ill effects. You'll
be overjoyed to know that mine didn't either. Sorry, no pix available.

Cheers,
Tom

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:49:26 -0500, "Charlie"
wrote:

In all honesty to those that ridiculed the tower and it's associated
riggings etc...I have posted photos of the damage incurred from the category
4 hurricane Dennis. I never expected this kind of result...live and learn I
suppose. Here is the direct link..

1. http://deepsouthnet.net/storm_damage.html


Just because the antenna wasn't damaged in this storm doesn't mean it
its installation is safe. So it withstood a storm whose biggest claim
to fame around her is flood damage.

Will the antenna stand the test of time?

Good luck
Plonk!

--
73 for now
Buck
N4PGW

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:47:37 -0400, Buck wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:49:26 -0500, "Charlie"
wrote:

In all honesty to those that ridiculed the tower and it's associated
riggings etc...I have posted photos of the damage incurred from the category
4 hurricane Dennis. I never expected this kind of result...live and learn I
suppose. Here is the direct link..

1. http://deepsouthnet.net/storm_damage.html


Just because the antenna wasn't damaged in this storm doesn't mean it
its installation is safe. So it withstood a storm whose biggest claim
to fame around her is flood damage.

Will the antenna stand the test of time?

Good luck
Plonk!

While I'm not going to "plonk" you, I would advise you to get better
guy anchors. Trees and utility poles aren't up to the task. If it
was me, I'd set some 6 or 8 inch steel pipe about four to six feet
into a BIG block of cement leaving six or seven feet out of the
ground. Have lugs welded to the pipe and attach the guys to the lugs.
This will get the guys up over head high and allow grass cutting and
the like around the posts. When the tree comes down, so will your
tower. Of course, using two different brands of tower section was
just foolish, the money spent on making a possibly faulty adapter
could have gone for another good section of tower. But, hey, it's
your tower and your money. As for me and mine, good engineering
practice takes precedence over make-do every time. Another amazing
fact is that someone climbed up there to put it up and set antennas.
It must have been a crazy man, as no sane tower-monkey would have
climbed up there on two different tower sections and faulty guying.
Be sure and post photos of the wreck when it comes down,eh.

R

Definately, sometimes we learn our lessons the hard way.

Susan
Ham to be
Husband Leon is KB7YXG

"spaceyfi" wrote in message
oups.com...
Definately, sometimes we learn our lessons the hard way.

Susan
Ham to be
Husband Leon is KB7YXG


Some people, a select few, can repeat the course indefinitely, yet still
rant at the gods over their misfortunes.

--
Ed
WB6WSN
El Cajon, CA USA