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Subject: [TowerTalk] rope in elements
From: steve@oakcom.com (Steve Maki)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:51:00 -0500
"Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com> wrote:

>As I look back, most of my tubing antennas vibrated. Some of 
>them had end caps and vibrated, but rope always fixed it. I had that 
>problem with Wilson yagis, and everything else.

Exactly my experience. Every commercial and home brew yagi I
ever had fluttered in the breeze - most survived, but after
just a few broken element tips, one quickly decides to stamp
out the problem with brute force. Rope in elements absolutely,
positively cures the problem.

--
Steve K8LX


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