[Towertalk] Counterweights for wire verticals

[Pete Smith]

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
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