[TowerTalk] Non Resonant Guy Wire Lengths

[Bill Wall]

Hi All and Jack,
ARRL Handbook has the cuts needed to make your guys non resonant. The hard part
is finding the glass/porcelean insulators.
                                                                       Bill Wall
                                                                   Antenna Mart
Quads

W4nf@aol.com wrote:

> My last message went out without a subject.  Sorry about that.  I think I'll
> get better feedback with a subject line.  Here is a copy of the orginal
> message.  73, Jack W4NF
>
> Hello All,
>
> The concrete will be cured to 28 days next Sunday and I'm planning on
> stacking the rest of the sections up to the final height of 75' on the Oct 2.
>  I have guys at the 23' level right now and I just ordered the LOOS gage to
> tension them to the proper limit.
>
> My question deals with the breakup of the next two set of guys.  I will be
> stacking a second C3E sidemounted on the tower so I want to breakup the
> middle set of guys and the top set.
>
> The middle set will be 76' long so I thought I would break it up as follows
> (starting from the tower and going down to the anchor:  4' - 54' - 18'.
>
> The top set will be 92' long and I was going to break up as follows:  4' -
> 54' - 27' - 7'.
>
> Please tell me if I'm doing anything fundamentally wrong with this approach.
> I would prefer to keep them as long as possible as I'm going broke already
> with the purchase of the antennas, etc.
>
> Thanks for your help.  Jack W4NF
>
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