> Looking for ideas for counterweights for wire verticals, one end of the rope
> will be at a tower and the other end will be through a pulley.
I have long tied the rope/cordage to a 10 to 12" long piece of 2 by 4
and run it through a `half block' an 8 by 8 by 8 concrete block,
just right for a 40 meter dipole constructed of 12 AWG copper weld.
Not at the end of the rope/cordage, it is easy to lift the block to
the (standing) lap and pull the 2 by 4 through the hole in the block
and set the block on the ground with one hand and lower the antenna
with the rope with the other. Did it hundreds of times. (over 25 years)
I set it with the bottom of the block 2 to 3 feet above the ground.
Set very near the tree, by the loop I put around the tree with the
pulley on it.
By moving the loop up or down the rope/cordage, I set the height of
the block to the ground.
A dipole so rigged, can not be torn down by any windstorm.
(I did not say tornado etc.)
One end fixed to tree/building, other end weighted.
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