I'm in the process of putting my inverted L back up, and have a
construction question - how do you position and attach the corner
insulator? My support for the vertical section is an old maple, plenty
tall but only really reachable with a pull-up rope by firing a
tennis-ball gun over it. The first time I put this up, I used a pulley
with a deep insulated sleeve and passed the inverted L wire through the
pulley. Neat, it seemed - the corner was automatically positioned to
keep the vertical portion the right length. Unfortunately, over a year
or so, the antenna wire flexing over the pulley caused it to break, so
this time around I'd like to use a rope through the pulley and an
insulator at the corner. Question is how best to do it, to minimize
strain on the antenna wire, making it more durable.
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73, Pete N4ZR
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