around 11:15 am and my antenna was blown away, I then put my equipment into cases to try to protect it from the rain. Shortly after, I heard the top of my house breaking away and my cousin— who was on the top floor—was calling for help He was not hurt but afraid, and t told him to come clown below, which he did Things were flying all about outside by this time, and it was dangerous to be outside We put some boards and things on a bed so that in case of debris falling from the top of the house we might hopefully survive. After the roof ripped off, some of the floorboards which were covering the downstairs also ripped off, and water flooded inside the house. We then took refuge under the bedr where we remained lying in a pool ot vater two inches deep for three to four hours.

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'As soon as the wind eased up a tittle later, I thought that the first thing to do was to get into the cellar of a neighboring wall house where we iould be safer, and maybe from there I could get my equipment back on the air, as it was still safe in the cases.

Carrying my equipment, I jumped through a window, along with my wife and cousin, and ran under that house, where I tried to set up the ng, However, when 1 looked outside for trees to which to tit- the antenna, 1 could not find any —all around was totally flat located whatever wire I could find and twisted the bits together to make an antenna 70-80 feet long, using sticks to support it about one foot above the ground This makeshift antenna allowed me to get on the air at about 5:00 pin Wednesday f managed to contact Allan 9Y4LG in Trinidad and spoke with him for about three minutes, just long enough to let them know that I still had my equipment but that as far as my eyes could see everything was flattened, and I would be back on later when the winds had fully subsided and I was able to make a better antenna

'It was around 7:00 pm when I completed a better antenna and got the center about 10feet high with a piece of stick off one of the broken-down houses. This antenna allowed me to communicate without as much danger to my rig as the first one A message was relayed to Radio Antilles by one ot the hams in Montserrat that contact had been made with me, and mv address was given so that I could be contacted This information was broadcast over Radio Antilles —which is very well received in Dominica and to which most Dominicans were usually tuned, unlike Radio Barbados which can hardly be heard-

'Around 10:30 pm, a reporter from Radio Antilles and some other guys came to me and said that they and the Prime Minister had heard the broadcast and lie had sent them to me to broadcast the following message: The Prime Minister has declared a state of emergency in Dominica.

A similar antenna worth considering is a single diamond quad loop, fed with open-wire at the bottom. This will behave (loosely speaking) as two shortened stacked dipoles, with the same kind of bi-directional pattern on all the higher HF bands. When mounted on the same 55ft pole, the phase centre would be higher than the skeleton slot. The skeleton slot antenna is very cheap and simple to make - mine consists of three bamboo spreaders and copper wire!! It is fed in the middle of the center wire with open wire line which is taken to an antenna tuning unit in the shack.

HF Skeleton Slot - An antenna system with a difference. Discussion in ' Antennas, Feedlines, Towers & Rotors ' started by NY3V, Nov 4, 2011. The design of this 6 m dipole antenna shall include the following design considerations:. The antenna must be compact. The antenna must be durable and secure. The antenna shall be installed on a 1.25 inch galvanized steel mast. The antenna shall be supported from a single point at its center. It shall not employ rope to tether it.

genera/ state of disaster has been declared for the entire island. The Prime Minister ;s requesting all islands to suppl medical and any tpe of assistance which they are able to provide to the island. It is feared that there are 60,000 people homeless. Two per-sons are so far known to have perished. Hospital has been partly demolished.

THE (VHF) DIPOLE ANTENNA At VHF and UHF, most antenna systems are derived from the dipole or its complement, the slot antenna. Many antennas are based on half-wave dipoles fabricated from wire or tubing. The feed point is usually placed at the centre of the dipole, for although this is not absolutely necessary, it can help prevent.

'After sending this message, I went off the air to conserve my battery power and spent the mght in the same cellar with 30-40 other people, two of whom were hurt, although not serious-

Next morning around 6:00 am (Thursday, August 50], some policemen came to move me to Police Headquarters in Roseau, so I sent my equipment with them while I went to try and lind some coaxial cable so thai I could put up a proper antenna. I arrived at Police Headquarters at 8:00 and managed to get my equipment operating trom about 12:00 noon. From this point on, I worked for 24-48 hours continuously passing information relating to requirements for aid, speeches by the Prime Minister and other ministers, and reports by newsmen in the island. The speeches and news reports were relayed to Radio Antilles via other hams, who then broadc ast them lor reception by Dominicans. Radio DBSr which normally operated out of Roseau, was very severely damaged and was not functional. 1 had to operate almost continuously until I got some help from outside. I think it was from 8P6GB from Barbados, late on Friday evening,'

Hurricane David battered Dominica for about five to six hours, with the eye passing over the southern part of the island during a twenty minute period be

Photo F Aerial photograph taken on Friday, August 31st, showing severely damaged warehouses on the outskirts of Roseau.

ginning Wednesday at about 12:30 pm After the passage of the eye, the winds, which have been reliably estimated in excess of 240 km hr, returned suddenly with renewed vengeance from the opposite* direction — from a westerly direction. This whipped up waves 9 to 15 meters high, and these waves pounded the west coast, causing extensive damage both to properties and to the roadway which runs at water s edge in most places.

Around 5:00 pm on Wednesday, most people began to emerge from the wreckage of their homes to be confronted with an utterly depressing scene, In five to six hours, the island had been completely devastated. It was estimated that out of a population of 85,000 souls, 60,000 were made homeless; miraculously, only 40 deaths were recorded

Damage to property was extremely severe, resembling photographs that I have seen of severely bombed-out areas in Vietnam. Large steel-framed buildings had been reduced to twisted heaps of junk (See Photos E and F ) The en-11re power distribution grid was destroyed, with hardly an electricity supply pole still standing, and the water supply had been disrupted, Roadways were impassable almost everywhere, being blocked either bv debris, fallen trees and poles, or swept away by the sea T he island, which largely is covered by dense tropical rain forest, appeared as though swept by fire. Almost the entire forest was completely stripped of foliage, leaving just broken and uprooted stumps of the trees (photos C through J),

I have always found it to be a beautiful green island, but on arrival there two days after David, I was overcome by a wave of great sorrow The forest was quite brown and denuded, and wherever you went the picture was the sametotal destruction of everything around —and you kept wondenng how this newly-independent nation could ever pick up the pieces and make a new start.

However, that was our reason for being inxolved — to help them begin to pick up the pieces and make that new start. Over the following days, Barbados, due to its geographical position, good airport and seaport, infrastructure, excellent communications links with the rest of the world, andH most

Photo G View overlooking the Kingshill area, in the vicinity oi ¡7DAY'S QJH There was nearly complete and total desfrucf/on oi the houses in this area and to the south oi Roseau.

Photo H. Ruins of the Roseau Anglican Church; miraculously, the stained-glass windows survived the wrath of David importantly, its well-organized and prepared Central Emergency Relief Organisation, became the center of all relief operations for Dominica.

The ARSB, because of the emergency situation, obtained permission at 7:45 pm on Wednesday, August 29th, to handle third-party traffic and phone patches relating to D

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