Barry:
I run a length of guy rope, nylon I believe, throught the 450 ladder line
(probably better called window line). I thread it through about every
10-12 spaces, after so many of those I put a twist in the line and
continue. The twist slows down the whipping by the wind. Just after the
line comes under the roof eve, I put a rain droop. Then up to the soffit to
go down into the house. For extra rain protection I have put a piece of
the nylon rope, 6 in length, on the line so that the rain will run down
this rather than all the way down the line. The rope is attached to the
top of the antenna pole and the soffit. It works gret for an loaded droopy
dipole (In V)
Chris opr VE7HCB
At 11:12 AM 2003-01-01 +1300, Barry Kirkwood wrote:
>Looking for ideas about strain relief for 450 ohm ladder line (the plastic
>ribbon stuff with square holes in it).
>Like: where one connects it to the centre of a dipole, seems uncouth to
>just hang it off the joints it makes with the antenna itself.
>Have punched small holes in the webs and woven stranded fishing line
>through the holes, taken the line back to the insulator above to take
>weight of the feedline.
>Am I doing right?
>Any ideas?
>Happy 2003
>Barry
>
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>Barry Kirkwood PhD ZL1DD
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