[TowerTalk] Can?t add egg insulator...

[Douglas Ruz (CO8DM)]

Hi,

Thanks for all your suggestions.

As Dacron and Kevlar ropes are not available here, i think i have an 
alternative non conductive strong material close of my town.

Somebody know the SLING used to move products at the harbor ???...from and 
to the ship.

I think i can get that SLING from the harbor...i know it is very strong but 
i dont know if this material can survive the weather here...UV radiation and 
marine environment.

73....Douglas, CO8DM

"No creo que haya alguna emoción más intensa para un inventor que ver alguna 
de sus creaciones funcionando. Esa emoción hace que uno se olvide de comer, 
de dormir, de todo." - Nikola Tesla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 8:19 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Can?t add egg insulator...


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>
> Stan, K5GO said "At risk of purists saying absolutely not, if I were going
> to put up just 30 feet of 25G tower and didn't have all the proper 
> materials
> to insulate the guy wires and guy it as would normally be done, I wouldn't
> hesitate for a moment to put two levels on that small tower using 3/8"
> diameter polyester (Dacron) low stretch rope. The antenna will blow apart
> first eliminating a potential problem and rope doesn't rust."
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>
> I would second Stan's suggestion for 2 reasons: 1) a spider beam is going 
> to
> collapse anyway under a really strong Hurricane wind and 2) whenever 
> someone
> says "rooftop" tower, what they really are saying is "how strong are my
> anchor points anyway?".  This is all about the ability of the guy anchors 
> to
> support the pull of the tower in wind.  Rarely is any roof connection 
> system
> up to the task.  By support with a strong rope, you kill many birds with 
> one
> stone and you likely don't add any weakness vs the anchor points.
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>
> I had a 60 ft tower of 25G support by 2 sets of rope guys for 5 years as 
> my
> 160M vertical.  It was heavy rope and there was a plate under the tower. 
> It
> was purposely not permanent because it was on a farmers land.  I had to
> remove it when the land sold.  Now I have 2 T top wire verticals - phased.
>
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> Ed  N1UR
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