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1. [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "W5JMW" <w5jmw@cableone.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:24:34 -0600; Hello to all.I am getting ready to put up a t-10.The weather is getting about right.I re-worked the tower about 3 months ago.I had a kma-5054 that I re-built after loosing 2 elements from birds.WELL,; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00369.html (7,712 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "Gene Smar" <ersmar@verizon.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:54:45 -0500; John: Others on here have offered in the past the suggestion to use monofiliment fishing line as a truss from the end of the boom to the mast. Makes it difficult for the critters to roost. 73 de Gene; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00370.html (8,681 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: Mike <nf4l@nf4l.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:59:51 -0500; I had a plastic owl on my mast and not a lot of birds. Lightning blew the eyes out of it, and when I repaired the damage to the beam, I didn't put it back up. About the same amount of birds. I got mi; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00371.html (8,531 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "Mike Ryan" <mryan001@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:11:27 -0500; I have seen rubber or plastic SNAKES on the tower, along an antenna boom for instance, work better than owls. I cannot recall what size or color, but I would bet somewhere on the net you could find i; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00372.html (10,123 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "Dave Olga Stein" <elfarocommunications@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:18:26 -0800; i refer you to this link, it works!! an excerpt from the web page of K6JRF It's been over 8 years and all traces of birds and their droppings are gone. So I've put up a different, mostly smaller, ant; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00373.html (9,155 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: K8RI on TT <k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:41:07 -0500; The shotgun is likely to shorten more elements than the birds. <:-)) I haven't lost any elements, but a group of Cormorants overnighting on the boom truss for my 7L 6-meter Yagi broke the truss which; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00375.html (8,835 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:59:49 -0800; I can Guarantee you that the OWL will not work. I have a very large Hawk that that comes zooming out of the sun and picks a small bird off the antenna in the morning. The little birds scatter for all; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00376.html (9,452 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: Dan Evans <dan.evans@insightbb.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:11:36 -0500; Or, it could be that birds just ain't too smart:-) Dan -- Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Clark County Indiana. EM78el K9ZF /R no budget Rover **QRP-l #1269 Check out the Rover Resource Page at: <ht; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00378.html (9,138 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: Dan Evans <dan.evans@insightbb.com>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:08:48 -0500; I doubt the birds will care much what type of snake is up there, as long as it's big enough to be a threat to the birds... One note of caution though, snakes are one of the favorite foods of many bir; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00379.html (11,126 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: K8RI on TT <k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:02:13 -0500; Maybe they know Owls prefer mice? 73 Roger (K8RI) _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http:; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00380.html (8,273 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:17:15 -0800; Either or, if real live bird of prey who has just devoured one of their buddies does not cut it, a static plastic replica is not going to do the trick. Mike Maybe they know Owls prefer mice? 73 Roger; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00381.html (9,154 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: "K0DAN" <k0dan@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:17:05 -0600; Hi John, and congrats on your new T10 (great antenna, you will not regret it!). I have found that owls (north-pointing or not) work for a while, and then the critters discover the owls are phonies. A; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00384.html (11,391 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] birds on the elements (score: 1): Author: K8RI on TT <k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:51:26 -0500; Bout once or twice a day a big hawk power dives through the cherry tree about 15 feet from the living room window and comes to a screeching halt with wings outspread and talons clicking against the w; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-02/msg00388.html (10,343 bytes)

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