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Re: [TowerTalk] How to support a large loop?

To: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] How to support a large loop?
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:51:57 -0700
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Jim Brown wrote:
> construction and components WILL fail. It is also CRITICAL that
> you rig a moving weight on one end of every span. Any wire
> without that moving weight (or other suitable tensioning device)
> will eventually fail, and probably in the first good storm.
>

Instead of a weight for tensioning, I like to use a spring.
I found that bungee cord inside a PVC tube (to protect it
from the weather) worked well.  A weight adds a lot of
inertia to the system.

Rick N6RK

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