I?m experimenting with wire antennas here at my Breckenridge, Colorado, QTH at 10,000?. I have the Arapahoe National Forest as my backyard with Lodgepole pines that range up to 80-100?. I have had up
Not too long, since I just have an 80m loop here. However, I did get it covered with about 1/2" of ice and snow, several times. I do leave the wire (I use aluminum electric fence wire) loose in the i
My antennas are mostly up 100-120 ft in redwoods, douglas fir, and madrones. I have had multiple failures of flex-weave in antennas hung in trees and hung from towers. Indeed, virtually every antenna
Instead of a weight for tensioning, I like to use a spring. I found that bungee cord inside a PVC tube (to protect it from the weather) worked well. A weight adds a lot of inertia to the system. Rick
Jon I have a 520' loop up only 40-60 feet, we don't have many 100footers here in western Ky at least not close to me, but here is what I did I tried the slingshot and the old arm methods but I built
My antennas are mostly up 100-120 ft in redwoods, douglas fir, and madrones. I have had multiple failures of flex-weave in antennas hung in trees and hung from towers. Indeed, virtually every antenna
I'm not sure what flex weave is composed of, but I did see some that a guy here had in a 160 meter antenna and it rusted. I think the wire he had must have had some iron in it or something. Looked ki
That would NOT have been flexweave, but might have been stranded copperweld. I HATE copperweld, because it is just awful to work with. Those want a bit more strength should consider hard drawn copper
I want to thank everyone for the many very good suggestions. I actually ordered the flex-weave on purpose. I have #14 hard drawn insulated wire and tried to get the 80M Delta loop up with it, but it
I?ve used my bow &arrow, spinning reel, and parachute cord to get the supports up, and have until this past week just tied the antennas up with enough sag to compensate for the wind. When I put up th
I used #12 insulated Flex-weave for 80M inverted-Ls in a 4-square a few years ago. Each wire went up 40-50 feet, then through a rope-supported pulley, then over to another branch. I left some slack
things... colored All of this is consistent with my experience, although I wasn't observant enough to notice the water issue, or to notice there was any steel content. I used flex weave to build seve
I totally agree. I just don't think it makes sense to run any kind of antenna wire through a pulley. In order for anything braided to be flexible, its strands have to rub across each other to make a
Here's another good source for pulleys, rope, hardware, etc. http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/main.do 73, Stew K3ND _______________________________________________ ____________________