[TowerTalk] hitest fishing line for antenna supports

Cqtestk4xs at aol.com Cqtestk4xs at aol.com
Mon Sep 8 08:29:53 EDT 2003


Back in the old days when I was living on a city lot of 60 by 120 I wanted to 
have a killer signal of 80.  I lived adjacent to an old orange grove.  So 
from my 120 foot tower I strung the ends of a dipole made with fairly light wire 
outward with nylon fishing line.  From far away it looked as though the ends 
were 'floating'. 

The ends of course were not floating.  They were attached to my neighbor's 
deserted groves' trees with high strength nylon line several hundred feet away 
from my tower.  About once a year, usually after a heavy windstorm I would have 
to retie them.  Of course in the dark of night or when the neighbor wasn't 
around.  And the neightbor, he never did figure out that I was borrowing his 
trees.

Bill


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