I have been using big box store "parachute cord" for antennas, but have found it quite fragile in real life - for example, the center support of my Carolina Windom came down within 2 weeks of my inst
Author: Mpridesti via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:12:41 -0400
Pete Have been using Mastrant rope ever since it was used to support 65 towers (falling Derrick system) at the WRTC 2014 event in trees and other placesperfect for our purposes! Agree with you on tha
Paracord is the wrong stuff for holding up wire antennas...it stretches and is generally light duty kind of stuff. Mastrant seems good; and so is black Dacron rope, found here among other places: htt
For the rope over the tree, find a good, marine grade pulley of the correct size for the rope. Rope on the end of the antenna goes through the pulley to a weight (Bucket of rocks?). Tree moves, rope
I use 3/16" black Mastraint double braid rope for my wire antenna's and have not had an issue. I also use large screw in eye bolts into the trunk of trees (~12 inch dia) that support the end of the
Author: Edward Mccann via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:30:29 -0700
But for the real solution, buy a bike lock from Home Depot for $15, one that has a stainless cable covered in thick see-thru poly, with swaged fittings (that the lock goes thru), choose a desired hei
Pete, I have been using Synthetic Textiles dacron rope to support my 80m verticles and ends of other misc antennas for over 30 years. It does stretch some but for my uses, I just pull the slack out o
Was the antenna installed with pulleys and a weight on one end? Any antenna rigged between trees without that method WILL be on the ground when the wind blows hard. I use Synthetic Textiles antenna
In 1984 I bought a roll of tarred nylon cord (trot line) to string up a 160 meter dipole in the trees. I think it was 440 pound strength. One end got stuck and had to be cut to get the wire down seve
That is what I use out here on the left coast, a tarred twisted line that is produced by a firm (Evanston?) up in the Seattle area. Used by the fishing fleets up and down the left coast for numerous
Nylon is notorious for degrading very fast in sunlight, so don't use it for antennas. Dacron/polyester is much, much better. Some line has a nylon core and a polyester sheath, which seems to work fin