[TowerTalk] Inverted-L and crankup tower

[Jim Lux]

Doh, must be early in the morning... You could put the spring loaded cord
reel on the far end of the L, assuming you've transitioned from the wire to
a nonconducting guy.  Then it would be coiling the rope/guy/non-conducting
whatever.   The mass of the cord reel would be held by whatever is holding
the far end of the wire (i.e. the ground).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: <N8DCJ at YAHOO.COM>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Inverted-L and crankup tower


> 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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