We had several days of high winds last week. My fan dipole suffered greatly from the wind! One leg came unbolted from the center connection and fell to the ground. In addition, one of the guy ropes holding the far end of the dipole became unattached as the turnbuckle gave way. When repairing the dipole, I decided to put in a 1:1 balun to choke off ay RF energy that might come back down the outside of the feedline. Now the SWR is huge! Most of my power is not getting out the antenna!
Meanwhile, we’ve had another seven inches of snow. It’ll be a while before I can get out to the antenna to try and figure out what’s wrong. Dang!