To: | "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> |
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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] How to support a large loop? |
From: | "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com> |
Reply-to: | richard@karlquist.com |
Date: | Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:51:57 -0700 |
List-post: | <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
Jim Brown wrote: > construction and components WILL fail. It is also CRITICAL that > you rig a moving weight on one end of every span. Any wire > without that moving weight (or other suitable tensioning device) > will eventually fail, and probably in the first good storm. > Instead of a weight for tensioning, I like to use a spring. I found that bungee cord inside a PVC tube (to protect it from the weather) worked well. A weight adds a lot of inertia to the system. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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