[TowerTalk] How to support a large loop?

[Rick Karlquist]

Jim Brown wrote:
> construction and components WILL fail. It is also CRITICAL that
> you rig a moving weight on one end of every span. Any wire
> without that moving weight (or other suitable tensioning device)
> will eventually fail, and probably in the first good storm.
>

Instead of a weight for tensioning, I like to use a spring.
I found that bungee cord inside a PVC tube (to protect it
from the weather) worked well.  A weight adds a lot of
inertia to the system.

Rick N6RK