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On Tue 04 Jan 2005 10:39:58a, "Michael Lawson"
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On Fri 31 Dec 2004 05:29:07p, "RHF"
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ML,
.
You can get fancier with a Three to Five Pound (3#-5#) Fish
Weight or an Old Wooden Window Weight instead of a Brick.
.
Buy a Ten Foot (10') Piece of PVC Pipe that the Weight
will just {Fit} "Slide" Up-and-Down in Freely.
.
Stick the PVC Pipe in the Ground about Two Feet (2')
with the rest of the Pipe above Ground.
.
Tie-Off the Weight with the Rope so that it is 'positioned'
Midway {Centered} in the PVC Pipe to Move with the
Dynamic Loading of the Antenna Wire.
.
Insert the Weight into the PVC Pipe.
.
Paint the PVC Pipe if that is what will make the Family
Happy ;-} (o: Out-of-Sight - Out-of-Mind )
.
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iane ~ RHF
.
All are WELCOME at the Shortwave Listener (SWL) "Antenna
Ashram"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortw...tenna/message/
502 Some Say: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
I BELIEVE: On A Clear Night . . .
You Can Hear Forever and Beyond, The BEYOND !
[ With the an Shortwave Listener "SWL" Antenna of your own
making. ] .
.


I was going to suggest a bucket filled with the necessary
amount of sand - but being at a childrens swing-set, I can
imagine that wouldn't last very long at all...

Ha. Not with my kids. I was originally going to
hang one end off the top of their playset (it would
have given me an extra 20 feet of length), but then
I thought that my son would try to see if he could
hang from the wire. Therefore, I decided to attach a
pressure treated 2x4x8 piece vertically on the rear
of the playset (4 feet attached to the 4x4 support
and 4 feet above the roof of the playset) so that
I could get the antenna wire safely above his
reach.


I *DO* admire your optimism, but if your son is like the vast
majority of
boys... Well, like I said - I do admire your optimism! Remember when
you
were his age? Try not to let him see you chuckle if you have to
admonish
him.

Oh, he has it really bad. I know what I was capable
of (like unlocking a door with three locks and a hook
at the top of the door when I was 2), so I plan
accordingly.

Seriously, "looks" don't make it perform any better. Put it up the
best you
can and, if there's a chance kids might attempt something they saw
in a
Tarzan episode, think "safety". It's better to break off under the
partial
weight of one kid, than the weight of three or four (think about
it).

Hmm. You have a point. My son (who's 3, btw),
climbed out over the top of the slide on the swingset
last summer and hung there by his hands. I was
running out to get him, but I knew I wasn't going
to make it in time. He let go, fell about 6 feet, got
up, and yelled happily, "I did it!!"

Besides, if you are like me, and perhaps some others in here, as
soon as
you get it rigged-up, within a week you'll have "a better idea"...

I'm sure about that. Eventually some of the trees that
I'll be planting in the backyard will be big enough to
hang from them, and I've also been thinking about
trying to "recreate" a good Wellbrook type antenna
without spending $300+ dollars to get a new one.

I'm thinking of modifying the rope to attach to
a rope wraparound thing that you'd find at the
bottom of a flagpole (yes, I can use technical
terms) and reknot it every so often. That'll get
me by until summer, and I'll reevaluate things
again.

--Mike L.


You lost me with all that technical jargon {G}, but you may want to
make
your own cleat with a couple of large nails driven half-way in at
opposite
angles from each other, so they form a wide "V" (Or more
appropriately, a
wide "\ /"). That way you can adjust the width as needed to
accomodate
the loose rope. If you are really brave, after you make that cleat
you
could give the leftover box of nails and a hammer to your son (who
needs
"action figures"!).

Ugh. I can see that having problems. I've gotten
sprayed with paint when my son "helped" me
paint the rails of our screened in porch, and I've
gotten sprayed by Bug-b-Gone by him as well
(accidentally, of course, he thought it was a
water gun).

--Mike L.