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1. [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@verizon.net>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:56:41 -0400; Unlike Charlie Brown's kite eating tree, the antenna eating pinoak yielded to a 2 ton come-along. The windom remains are down. Validates my 'soft-technology' approach, using two small bowlines, tied; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00085.html (8,091 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:35:32 -0700; Faced with a similar problem, I've been spending lots of time with the ARRL Antenna Book. The later versions have some interesting thinking on the topic of wires, and the vertical radiation patterns; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00089.html (9,783 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: Martin AA6E <aa6e@ewing.homedns.org>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:44:50 -0400; My tree guy frowns when he sees antenna ropes through tree crotches. It can damage the tree. He would like to have it reseated every so often so the tree can heal. Much better, I think, to install a; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00090.html (7,490 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "michael taylor" <mctylr@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:37:04 -0400; There are two sections in ARRL's _Simple and Fun Antennas for Hams_, in Chapter 4, "Using (and Abusing) Trees as Antennas Supports (W3AS)" and "Guidance for Tree Climbers". The first section is based; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00091.html (8,388 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 <faunt@panix.com>; Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:41:12 -0400 (EDT); There was an article in QST a few years back about this. And screw eyes, if attended often enough that they're not overgrown, are much healthier than rope over a crotch. It looks like September 1989,; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00092.html (8,748 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@verizon.net>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:25:43 -0400; Martin, AA6E, expressed concern about the rope or wire being in the crotch of a branch, and that a screw-eye would be better. And better for the longevity of the tree. I agree, Martin....but the ante; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00097.html (7,963 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "K8RI on TowerTalk" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:42:20 -0400; It really doesn't matter if it's through a junction, around a limb, or around the trunk. As the tree grows it will encompass the line. It looks like the line cut into the tree, but it didn't. Howeve; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00107.html (10,090 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>; Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:21:40 -0700; Much better, I think, to install a screw eye and If you are going to put in a screw eye, you need to put a 2x4 or something like that first, then hook the screw eye into that. I put some in some tree; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00143.html (8,308 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Wes Attaway (N5WA)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>; Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:17:48 -0500; Tom .... I think the best solution is to use a longer screw eye. I have purchased some galvanized eyes from Home Depot that are 12" (or maybe 14") long. If you screw them into the tree only as far as; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00153.html (9,722 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>; Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:00:27 -0700; Hi Wes The only problem I see with that is that if you have 8 inches of shaft on a screw eye, that is a lot to bend back and forth. Seems like it is a lot stronger if you can screw it right into the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00155.html (8,839 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Wes Attaway (N5WA)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>; Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:19:34 -0500; Well, that is what I used to think. That scenario never happened with any wire antenna I have put up in the last few years. When we moved to a new location in the fall of 2004 I had to go to all wire; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00157.html (10,141 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Wes Attaway (N5WA)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>; Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:33:29 -0500; Tom .... one more idea .... people talk about using weights on the down line from a pulley. I have been using what I think is a better option. I just loosely wrap the dacron line around the base of t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00159.html (10,533 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Rick Tavan N6XI" <rtavan@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:30:44 -0700; A similar technique is to run a line over the tree with a pulley on one end. Run the antenna rope through the pulley. Pull the pulley up into the tree, playing antenna rope dead end up through the pu; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00164.html (10,710 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "K8RI on TowerTalk" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 00:52:47 -0400; A 12 to 14 inch galvanized lag bolt/screw eye will have a 3.8" to 1/2" shank. It shouldn't do much bending. Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2 www; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00165.html (9,813 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Jim Miller" <JimMiller@STL-OnLine.Net>; Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:02:51 -0500; Absolutely the way to do it. 73, Jim -- Original Message -- From: "Rick Tavan N6XI" <rtavan@gmail.com> To: "Wes Attaway (N5WA)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>;; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00176.html (12,038 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna eating tree (score: 1): Author: "Robert Carroll" <w2wg@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:11:08 -0400; The marine pulleys from Radio Works and elsewhere are much better than the run of the mill hardware store pulleys. Bob W2WG --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towerta; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-09/msg00202.html (12,874 bytes)

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