[TowerTalk] Sloper Installation

[Rod Elliott]

Don't like pulleys for areas that get a lot of freezing rain / icing... 
pulleys tend to ice up and freeze just when you need them the most.

73
Rod Elliott VE3UW

At 23:42 11/06/04, you wrote:
>Tommy:
>
>      How 'bout a weight on a pulley at the far end of the sloper wire.
>
>73 de
>Gene Smar  AD3F
>
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>Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:43 PM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Sloper Installation
>
>
> > I am planning to put in a sloper for 80 meters.  My tower is a crank-up
> > TX-455.  We have sudden strong winds out here in the desert and when I
>lower the
> > tower, I would like the slack in the sloper to be absorbed by a
>rust-resistant,
> > flexible, spring.  Anyone with experience having done this before?  I'd
> > appreciate all the help I can get.
> >
> > 73 Tommy WE7K
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