[UK-CONTEST] Fishing line as support

[eh at eholt.co.uk]

I have used 80lb waxed fishing line, lasts years; but expensive at about £17 for 50m, and hard to come by. However, Polyesterlina 1.4mm fishing line by Fladen Fishing: www. Fladenfishing.se is very strong, durable, UV resistant. £9 for 95m roll. There is a thinner one too. Just a bit of a hazard when mowing the lawn and you don't see it, whips the glasses and hat off! Supports my 80m dipole and 40/20m dipoles and multi-band vertical in 100+mph winds. It's the wires that fatigue and break at over 100 mph most winters not the Polyesterlina.

Ed--GM0WED 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "G4LMW" <g4lmw at btconnect.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:32:25 
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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Fishing line as support

Fellow contesters

The XYL is geting fed-up with all the ropes (amongst other things!) at QTH 
G4LMW.

So, I plan to replace the support ropes for various dipoles (topband, 80M, 
40M) wth fishing line.

My question is - what breaking strain would be advisable? Obviously, a lower 
strain would be more invisible, but how low do I dare go?

Regards
Rob, G4LMW 

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