At 01:43 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Steve Katz wrote:
>I've used cinder blocks or cement blocks for this. Heavy, cheap and strong
>enough to do the job. Be sure nobody can walk under it, though. One never
>knows when the rope will give way...!
When I was a kid, I had an 80-meter dipole made of #12 copperweld. The
weights we used then were 2-foot lengths of 2-foot diameter oak tree trunk,
with a screw eye inserted. Needless to say, they weren't far off the
ground. and after 4 years, when I took the antenna down the copperweld
rolled right up. That is TOUGH stuff.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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