Da Birds and the Bees, Wasps etc.

[Rasmussen@centuryinter.net]

To keep the un wanted out of of masts, tower legs, poles and holes, 
I use an expandable foam insulation sold in most hardware and 
building supply stores. It comes in a pressure can like spray paint 
and has a nozzle for dispensing it into the cavity of choice.  I 
have used it to seal up the mast my C-band dish sits on and the top 
of my butternut vertical. (the cap long since died of UV exposure). 
If you have air coming around your doors, windows, antenna cable 
entrances, this stuff will seal it up tight.  The stuff continues to 
expand for several minutes after it is shot in.   If you want to 
fill the top of a large vertical mast, stuff some newspaper down the 
mast four to six inches ( so you don't try to fill the whole mast) 
and fill the top 3/4 full. After is has had a day or so to cure, you 
can cut the excess off with a knife

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> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, AA7BG Matt Trott wrote:
> 
> > I know this MUST have come up before, but.......
> > 
> > How do you all keep the pesky birds from whitewashing 
> towers/antennas? I've
> > been having flocks of at least a hundred perching on guylines, 
> antennas, and
> > the top plate of the tower. The guano was about an inch thick in 
> a matter of
> > weeks!
> > 
> > I put up a plastic crow and that helped for a while. A friend 
> put a plastic
> > owl on his and it worked great for a month or so, but he looked 
> out the
> > window at his tower last week and there was a bird perched on 
> the top of the
> > owl!!
> > 
> > Any other ideas? We don't get enough rain to rinse it all off.
> > 
> > Sign me,
> > 
> > Really Tworked in Montana
> > 
> > 
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> Haven't had that problem but hadn't gone to the top of either of 
> the two 
> towers in some months.  When I went up one and KO7V went up my 
> other one 
> we each found a dead bird at the bottom of each mast (inside it).  
> They 
> apprently went in the top looking for a nest site or shelter for 
> the 
> night and couldn't get back out, eventually working their way to 
> the 
> bottom.  Guess it makes sense to cap the top of the mast.  I know 
> I've 
> seen caps made for pipe -- have seen some on other people's masts 
> -- 
> wonder if jamming a tennis ball (or whatever is the right size) in 
> the 
> top is an appropriate solution.
> 
>  73 - Rich Boyd, KE3Q
> 
> 
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