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[TowerTalk] How do you remove guys to walk a beam up Rohn 25?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] How do you remove guys to walk a beam up Rohn 25?
From: w4an@contesting.com (Bill Fisher - W4AN)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:11:24 -0400 (EDT)


Here's how it was done...

Raise antenna to just below set of guys.  Boom is directly under one of
the guy attachment points.  Next, he took a HIGH QUALITY come-a-long and
attached it under the boom to the tower.  He attached the come-a-long to
the guy wire with a juma (something I had never seen before).  He then
cranked on the come-a-long until there was slack at the normal guy
attachment point.  He unhooked preform for the guy and raised the antenna
past this point by a foot.  Then he reattached the guy wire and unhooked
the come-a-long.  We did this 3 times to raise it to 105 feet.

73

Bill



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