In a msg of , Jeff Edmonson writes to Rob Dennis:
 >>  JE> You're back! Welcome back, too.
 >> SUPRISE! (G!)
 >> Thanks to a ZIP backup its all running (knock wood) properly now.
 JE> Glad to hear it!
 >> Maybe we should all go back to using DOS?!!
 JE> Some of us never left };->
 Yep. 75 percent of my work is done under it,the rest under NT.
 But at least I can get at the ZIP drive from DOS when I crash!
 >> On a sad note my trapped dipole is now a scrap dipole.
 >> I only had it up 4 years and the ice did in one trap.
 JE> Maybe when you change the wire out, this spring, you can change that to
 JE> harddrawn solid copper.  I've had my 75m dipole made of that stuff, up
 JE> since 1985.  It's the antenna I still use today.  No insulation (which 
has
 JE> an effect on radiation, anyway), just bare-ol-wire.
 Right now I think it is done for good.
 I spent a few hours going over the traps and ALL show stress fracture lines 
where the eye-bolts are for the wire to attach to.
 It seems that antennas were never designed to stand up to the winters we 
et.
 Makes me wonder what the guys up north of me do for antennas.
 I think I'll throw together a multi-band dipole instead and spray the 
stranded wire with a clear coat laquer and see how long it lasts.
 I was just a bit ticked off to find that the wire it came with was so easy 
to snap with my bare-hands after only a 4 year exposure to the elements.
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