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1. [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:26:01 -0500; I have a small variety of wire HF antennas that I've placed high in my trees with a tennis ball gun. All great except that the lifetime of the rope I've been using (3/16" polypropylene braid with an; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00201.html (7,621 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: n8de@thepoint.net; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:31:01 -0500; Pete, Try the following: 1. Place a line over the tree as desired 2. Attach a rope with a pulley at the end. 3. Run another (support) rope through the pulley. 4. Raise the pulley to the desired heigh; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00202.html (8,708 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Chuck Gooden <Chuck.Gooden@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:52:26 -0600; I use a metal screw eye bolt that I screw into the trunk of the tree and attach the 3/16 polypropylene braid rope to that after pulling the rope tight, but leaving some minor slack in the wire. If th; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00203.html (7,632 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: "Bob Shohet, KQ2M" <kq2m@kq2m.com>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:58:49 -0500; Hi Pete, I experience the same issues here. One of the things that I do is for higher stress ropes through trees, I switch from 3/16 to 1/4. 3/16 abrades relatively because only a portion of that dia; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00204.html (11,304 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: RCM <robrk@nidhog.net>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:06:25 -0500; Do the pulley thing. Also, go read about Mule Tape I have some made with Kevlar. Up for ten years. What you dont use for antennas, tow a car. Done that. You may not need the 2500 pound stuff. http:/; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00205.html (9,198 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:07:36 -0800; Any rope will fray when moving over a branch. IMO, Synthetic Textiles (direct, DXEng, others) makes the most durable short of specialized arborist rope that has a polymer impregnated outer layer and; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00206.html (9,853 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: <n6sj@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:12:35 -0800; Don I use your technique here on tall trees. Besides minimizing abrasion, the pulley allows the treetops to move in different directions in the wind without breaking wires! It's fun to watch the coun; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00207.html (10,516 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:45:00 -0800; The wires (80, 40, 30 dipoles, 160M Tee) hung between my very tall redwoods mostly use 5/16" Synthetic Textiles rope, and mostly through CMI rescue pulleys that climbers have attached to big hooks la; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00209.html (10,409 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Sean Waite <waisean@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:55:15 -0500; One thing I considered when hanging my dipole was the breaking strength of the wire used on the antenna vs that of the rope. Over the 5 years the antenna has been up, the rope has been entangled in e; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00210.html (11,094 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Gary <gary_mayfield@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:08:06 +0000; Someone mentioned you will get a lot of responses - they were right. Am I the only one to have the weight thing backfire? One afternoon with some serious wind gusts I watched the weight go up and act; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00211.html (11,537 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Tougher antenna rope (score: 1): Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>; Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:13:53 -0800; Copper-weld is TERRIBLE antenna wire for situations like this. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe; /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-01/msg00212.html (8,564 bytes)

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