[TowerTalk] Stringing beverage antenna wires [OT]

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 1 23:44:00 EST 2005


At 04:03 PM 12/1/2005, Robert Chudek wrote:

>I want to pass along links I found. It seems the farming community has 
>dealt with this issue long before Harold Beverage discovered the benefit 
>of his antenna!
>
>I continue to be amazed by how much I don't know! How about a "spinning 
>jenny", or the "wire vise", or the "wire link", or how to identify the 
>lead end of the wire, etc... For those of you who grew up on the farm, 
>this is old hat. But for us city slickers who moved out to the country to 
>build our starter castles... well... here you go...
>
>Working with high tensile fence wire:
>http://www.foothill.net/~ringram/hitensle.htm

And note well, it's the University of *California* extension service that 
has provided these helpful hints.  Not all tax dollars are mis-spent, even 
here in 6-land.

Jim, W*6*RMK




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