You can find insulators at your local feed/seed stores....These electric
fence insulators (ceramic) are inexpensive...about $3.50 or so per box of
10.
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Wall <billwall@bellsouth.net>
To: W4nf@aol.com <W4nf@aol.com>; towertalk@contesting.com
<towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Non Resonant Guy Wire Lengths
>
>Hi All and Jack,
>ARRL Handbook has the cuts needed to make your guys non resonant. The hard
part
>is finding the glass/porcelean insulators.
> Bill
Wall
> Antenna
Mart
>Quads
>
>W4nf@aol.com wrote:
>
>> My last message went out without a subject. Sorry about that. I think
I'll
>> get better feedback with a subject line. Here is a copy of the orginal
>> message. 73, Jack W4NF
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The concrete will be cured to 28 days next Sunday and I'm planning on
>> stacking the rest of the sections up to the final height of 75' on the
Oct 2.
>> I have guys at the 23' level right now and I just ordered the LOOS gage
to
>> tension them to the proper limit.
>>
>> My question deals with the breakup of the next two set of guys. I will
be
>> stacking a second C3E sidemounted on the tower so I want to breakup the
>> middle set of guys and the top set.
>>
>> The middle set will be 76' long so I thought I would break it up as
follows
>> (starting from the tower and going down to the anchor: 4' - 54' - 18'.
>>
>> The top set will be 92' long and I was going to break up as follows:
4' -
>> 54' - 27' - 7'.
>>
>> Please tell me if I'm doing anything fundamentally wrong with this
approach.
>> I would prefer to keep them as long as possible as I'm going broke
already
>> with the purchase of the antennas, etc.
>>
>> Thanks for your help. Jack W4NF
>>
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