A UFO (or some other oddity…) may have run into my ham radio tower overnight.

I look at my ham radio antenna tower every day going out to get the mail and so on.

This morning (wheeling the garbage can out) something looked a bit, um…different.

And when I put on the telephoto,… no sir, it doesn’t look like corrosion at the top thrust bearing – see the pipe bend?

Not a thrust bearing corrosion issue at first glance.

And then – here’s the additional weird part, like tower bend isn’t?

So I’m making breakfast with Elaine, boiling some Chinese egg noodles (which is good with oyster sauce and butter, chicken broth). I tell Alexa “Set 14 minute timer.”

Elaine and I talk for a minute or two – three max.

“Alexa: time remaining?”

“You have 1 minute 40 seconds remaining…”

So a serious WTF day here.

But THEN…

The Capper?

I’ve been out working int he shop and on solar and I’m about to take a nice hot shower to head up to the endo’s office to check on the oral surgery (routine follow up).

NO WATER!!!

Called the water company.

“No, it’s us.  We have a line break on 441…we will get it back on this afternoon….”

So the next called was to the endo’s office…

“You don’t want me to come in until the water comes on and I get a shower…”

“You’re not the first…It has happened before.”

But not to me!

Ham radio antenna bent-over. A time warp at breakfast. And A WATER LINE BREAKS less than half a mile from the antenna?

Son G2 tells me:  “Dad, you might want to stay home today…”

NSS.

No change in background radiation (10-15 CPM)…

-ure