I had a little storm damage to the tower mounted antennas on 2/6/2020, though only a small amount. My tower is 105' tall, and the yagi antennas are mounted on top of that. The lowest antenna is the 6el Force-12 HF yagi, the middle yagi is the Cushcraft a50-5S 5el 6 meter yagi, and the top yagi is a Cushcraft 13B2 2m SSB yagi.
We have had a weird winter...warm and wet. This is normally the time of year where we have temps in the low teens and the largest snowfalls. This year, we've barely run the home heating system, with lots of days in the 50's, 60's, and even 70's...and lots of rain. On this day, the temps started off in the 70's, fell about 20 degrees, and tremendous winds blew through. Rain storms were reported at moving over 100 mph (!!) by the local weather station, and there was lots of wind damage. We had loads of tree limbs down, but the damage in the photo below is the only antenna damage I had. The Force-12 at 105' was twisted on the vertical mast, the 6m 5 element yagi had a little damage to the reflector, and the tower mounted dipoles for 80 & 160 had a limb hanging on them. That's all! I'll take that any day, compared to the storm damage in 2016 that took the tower down :-)
Dave WB4IUY
www.WB4IUY.net
