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Re: [TowerTalk] Break-aways for Tree Installed Wire Antennas

To: Jim W7RY <jimw7ry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Break-aways for Tree Installed Wire Antennas
From: Ron WV4P <wv4ptn@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 13:48:53 -0500
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Use Counter weights with a tag line instead of tying them off..  when a
limb falls it just lifts the counterweight up in the air, you remove limb
it comes back down. Ron WV4P

On Sun, Jul 7, 2019, 1:03 PM Jim W7RY <jimw7ry@gmail.com> wrote:

> I live in a heavily forested area (The Ozarks) and keep having (mostly
> dead) tree limbs come down and take down my wire antennas.
>
> Sometimes the rope holding the center insulator/balun will break, then I
> have to
> re-string the pulley, or re-shoot the tennis ball launcher in the same
> spot, which is difficult, that is 50-60 feet up a tree.…
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> 73
> Jim W7RY
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