We had a "last winter storm" blow through here yesterday that destroyed my 90 foot irrigation tube vertical. Very frustrating, the thing made it all through the winter snow and ice when I was only ab
Wow a 90 foot tube vertical! what is this irrigation tubing like? Aluminium? diameter?wall thickness? How do you raise a 90 footer? I am contemplating a puny 40 footer (or maybe a bit more), I can ge
See my upcoming article "K1FK 75' Vertical for 80 & 160 Meters" (tenatively scheduled to be published in the June 2004 issue of QST), on how to construct, erect, and place such an animal into operat
I can recommend the TITANEX V 160 HD. Selfsupporting - No guying. It has been up 2 seasons now. It bends over in stormy weather but goes back to straight vertical once the wind is slowing down. 73 Ra
Deni, look here the principal how You can as single-man put up the 46m high vertical: http://www.73.ru/equipment/index.htm For the ropes - look http://www.lanex.cz/en/ and ask the yacht ropes, type "
Polyester and many other types of rope are quite stretchy -- and some loose weaves are horrible in this regard. With the long lengths involved, it is quite easy for the combination of sag in the guy
The Boys in Battle Creek have had good success with Dacron rope. It seems to have minimum stretch and appears quite UV resistant. We got ours from Synthetic Textiles, I think (W0CD bought it for the