[TowerTalk] Inverted-L and crankup tower

[Jim Lux]

What about a spring?  Presumably this is for a fairly big antenna, so a few
feet of spring with the antenna wire looped in parallel won't change the
electrical properties much.  If you want to keep the antenna from snagging
while the tower's in the stowed position, what about a weight and pulley
arrangement on the tower end.  Or, one of those spring loaded cord reels.
You should probably use one of those nifty copper braid covered synthetic
core wires.

----- Original Message -----
From: "dan bookwalter" <n8dcj at yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:52 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Inverted-L and crankup tower


> Anyone have any real slick ideas on maintaining a
> taught vertical section of an Inverted-L attached to
> my crank up tower??? since the end of the horiz
> section most likely will be going to the ground and
> not a tree, since the closest usable tree is a few
> hundred feet away i cant put a weight on that end to
> take up the slack....
>
> Dan N8DCJ
>
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