26.600Mhz beacon off indefinitely

[wolf359]

I haven't been able to hear it since about two weeks ago. I recently went out on a rainy afternoon hike and found that it had been completely destroyed by lightning. The damage is spectacular. One end of the dipole has visible arc damage and most of the components were vaporized. The SCH40 PVC housing was split open, and a corner of the solar panel was fried.
I was soaked and amused.

Anyway, it was fun while it lasted.
Back to the protoboard.

[outhouse radio]

DANG    i know just how you feel    GOOD LUCK with the next one

[cmradio]

Ouch!

Just when upper band conditions were picking up here, too

Peace!

[SW-J]

Rats, like cmr said, just when conds were improving too.