[TowerTalk] Durability of Mastrant rope
Mpridesti
mpridesti at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 19 08:12:41 EDT 2019
Pete
Have been using Mastrant rope ever since it was used to support 65 towers (falling Derrick system) at the WRTC 2014 event in trees and other places- perfect for our purposes!
Agree with you on that other rope - just does not last.
Regards,
Mark, K1RX
> On Apr 19, 2019, at 8:04 AM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I have been using big box store "parachute cord" for antennas, but have found it quite fragile in real life - for example, the center support of my Carolina Windom came down within 2 weeks of my installing with with a tennis-ball launcher. It was held up by a 70-foot pine tree, and my guess is that either the wind caused it to be over-stressed or chafing against branches caused it to fail.
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> Has anyone had experience - good bad, or otherwise - with the Mastrant rope sold by a number of ham radio suppliers? Any other suggestions for support that may be more durable? I'm willing to go to bigger rope if that would help - Mastrant quotes working strength of up to 900 pounds, but I don't know how resistant their rope is to chafing.
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> 73, Pete N4ZR
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