Don't like pulleys for areas that get a lot of freezing rain / icing...
pulleys tend to ice up and freeze just when you need them the most.
73
Rod Elliott VE3UW
At 23:42 11/06/04, you wrote:
Tommy:
How 'bout a weight on a pulley at the far end of the sloper wire.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
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Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Sloper Installation
> I am planning to put in a sloper for 80 meters. My tower is a crank-up
> TX-455. We have sudden strong winds out here in the desert and when I
lower the
> tower, I would like the slack in the sloper to be absorbed by a
rust-resistant,
> flexible, spring. Anyone with experience having done this before? I'd
> appreciate all the help I can get.
>
> 73 Tommy WE7K
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