clements@bbnccq (09/30/85)
From: Bob Clements <clements@bbnccq.ARPA> Packet notes from Boston; re: Gloria. Here is a quick list of outages caused by hurricane Gloria in the Boston area. Power outages took W0RLI off the air, cutting the gateway to most of the rest of the world via HF. As of Monday morning, he is still off due to lack of power. Other important local digipeaters went off, including KD2S-1, K1EA and WB1EMT-1. With luck these will be back in a day or two... Massachusetts utility companies are quoting between 100,000 and 200,000 customers still out in the state. More serious damage was suffered at N1DL. Karl is our gateway via HF to Europe. [Hank, W0RLI points his beams west and south. Karl points east.] Karl's whole antenna farm, VHF and HF, came crashing down. He will obviously be out of service for much longer. He is also heading off to BY- and JA-lands on business, which will delay reconstruction at home. I was very lucky at K1BC. Power stayed on, even though it was off in a large chunk of Lexington just north of me, and in many other neighboring towns. The tree which crashed on my property was kind enough to miss both my house and my antennas, though I did lose my 80 meter dipole [now restored]. 73, Bob, K1BC