I have a name for someone to work on that mess up there. I need to set 
it all up and get it down, repair wiring, find out what has failed such 
that it wind vanes, and then we need to decide what to do. As far as I 
have been able to determine, nothing up there has a federal property ID, 
so we can deal with it without a lot of paperwork. If the shear bolt has 
failed, we need to determine why it keeps happening (this would be the 
second such failure); if it's a wind load issue, we need to decide what 
to get to replace the SteppIR. If the rotor has failed, it needs 
repairing and we have to face getting an antenna with less wind load. I 
suspect we need less wind load no matter what. I wish we could find a 
damping unit to reduce the shock loads, but I have no idea what to use 
or if such things exist that fit our needs.


If we get another antenna, how does that process work? Who decides? How 
is it purchased? In fact, what entity actually buys it? I'm the WX5NWC 
trustee, so I guess I'm going to be somehow involved...


73,


Kim N5OP


On 11/29/2016 10:26 PM, Brewster, Keith A. wrote:
>
> Likewise, I can spend a few hours; busy time with the holidays and all 
> that entails on top of everything else.
>
> Yeah, noticed that the stepper lost another half element somehow.
>
>
> -Keith
> n0iaw
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* OU Amateur Radio Club <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of 
> Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:04 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Skywarn Recognition Day at NWC?
> I can try to spend a little time associated with this but I will have 
> to also keep the spousal unit happy with me... I can operate a bit. 
> One would hope NWC would be active.
>
> Gerry N5JXS
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Peter Laws <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     That would require someone to have entered it.  :-)
>
>     Gary, WB5ULK, wants to operate.  I expect to have a computer suitable
>     for electronic logging available in time (I won't be here tomorrow or
>     Thursday but will have it Friday).  The Steppir is OOS, as you may
>     know, but we have the vertical+tuner available.  I have a D-STAR radio
>     available as well assuming there is to be D-STAR operation.
>
>     Peter
>
>
>     --
>     Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
>     National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
>     University of Oklahoma Information Technology
>     [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>     On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Brewster, Keith A.
>     <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>     > Dec 3, 2016
>     >
>     > Don't see Norman on the list
>     > http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/hamradio/
>     <http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/hamradio/>
>     >
>     > -Keith
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Gerry Creager
> NSSL/CIMMS
> 405.325.6371
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> “Big whorls have little whorls,
> That feed on their velocity;
> And little whorls have lesser whorls,
> And so on to viscosity.”
> Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)

-- 
Kim Elmore, Ph

Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." – Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./