[TowerTalk] Durability of Mastrant rope

[Nidhog]

For the rope over the tree, find a good, marine grade pulley of the correct size for the rope. Rope on the end of the antenna goes through the pulley to a weight (Bucket of rocks?). Tree moves, rope in tree doesn’t.

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> On Apr 19, 2019, at 08:04, 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.
> 
> 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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