[TowerTalk] Durability of Mastrant rope

[Chris]

Paracord is the wrong stuff for holding up wire antennas...it stretches and is generally light duty kind of stuff.  Mastrant seems good; and so is black Dacron rope, found here among other places:  http://www.kf7p.com/KF7P/Dacron_Rope.html

Chris
KF7P





On Apr 19, 2019, at 6:12 AM, Mpridesti via TowerTalk wrote:

> 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. 
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> Regards,
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> Mark, K1RX
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>> 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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