[TowerTalk] Tower tip

[Mike Gilmer, N2MG]

"Tail"...that's a good name.  "Flag" should be reserved for identifying that
unwanted piece of tape that flutters in the breeze when the installer
stretched it too much at the end of a wrap (usually to tear the tape, and
then without letting it relax) and the tape starts to unwrap.

Mike N2MG

N9EN wrote:
> Being an industrial electrician for 29+ years, this was one
> of the first things I learned. It came in handy when fasten-
> ing wire(s) onto a fish tape and being able to take the tape
> off quickly later. We called this folded-over piece of tape
> a "tail."

N2MG wrote:
> > When the ground crew temporarily wraps tape to hold stuff together that
> > then needs to go "up the tower", it is wise to fold the end of the tape
> > over in a "flag" so that the tower workers can just grab and pull the
> > tape off.