Chris Parker, Chief Forecaster at the Marine Weather Center said that after losing the ability to turn their directional SSB Antennas, they found a badly damaged rotator motor assembly when they lowered the antennas for inspection last week.
“We immediately ordered a new one, which was supposed to arrive this week. We hope to complete the installation of the new motor assembly and re-erect the antennas sometime between Thursday September 22 and Sunday September 25,” he said.
“So we will be off-the-air much of this week. We should be back on the radios sometime between the morning of Friday September 23 and the morning of Monday September 26.
“Everyone out there should hear us better than you have recently, as we’ll be able to rotate the
Yagi antennas we use on 8.137 & 12.350 USB.
“In the meantime, we continue to operate the morning and evening webcasts which are included in Subscriptions to SSB Voice Nets. Details on accessing Webcasts here:
https://www.mwxc.com/faq.php#q1
Those cruisers who are not currently Subscribed to Chris’s Regional Daily Email forecasts and would like to receive them until the MWC is back on-the-air, can email Chris (and let him know for which Region(s) you want to receive), at: chris@mwxc.com
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