I live in a heavily forested area (The Ozarks) and keep having (mostly dead) tree limbs come down and take down my wire antennas. Sometimes the rope holding the center insulator/balun will break, the
Use Counter weights with a tag line instead of tying them off.. when a limb falls it just lifts the counterweight up in the air, you remove limb it comes back down. Ron WV4P _________________________
Hi Jim, My strategy is to have pull down lines on all hoist lines. These can be para-cord or lighter braid nylon cord (#4 I think). Then when the wire breaks I can retrieve the hoist lines that run t
I hire climbers to put pulleys high in the trees, then use Synthetic Textile rope with a weight on one end, the other end tied off. I find that the rope does NOT last forever in my tall redwoods -- t
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I'm not a fan of a weight on the hoist line to place tension on a wire antenna. It seems to me that it adds one more spring/mass resonant system element which can't be a plus. I think a long bungee i
I once had a 130 foot horizontal wire tensioned by a bungee cord. I put the bungee cord inside a PVC pipe to protect it from UV. Worked perfectly. Rick N6RK __________________________________________