[TowerTalk] supporting a 40 meter rotatable dipole with trusses

[terry burge]

Been working on my 40 meter rotatable dipole I plan to put up at 124 feet or so. But I'm worried about making sure whatever I come up with to fix the 3/16" dacron truss lines to the elements out about 20' or so are secure. Dealing with the DXE tubing when it gets down below 1" or so I don't want anything too heavy. Also don't want to drill and weaken the dipole. I actually came up with some 'rings' from Wilco just about the right size that would slip over the 0.5", 0.625", 0.750" to I believe the 0.875". There I could use 1/2"-1 1/4" hose clamps to make sure the ring doesn't slip further up. Just the dacron wrapped around the ring might be enough to keep that from happening but I don't trust it.


I'm not sure I could trust just using the hose clamps to hold the dacron line but I don't want to drill and weaken the tubing in any way.


Any better idea? You can see a few pictures of what I'm building on my QRZ/KI7M page.


Terry

KI7M


Always building antennas and trying to improve them. ☺