Buying pulleys at radio supply places is as bad as buying at a marina. Get
the stainless stuff at your local hrdware for about half the cost.

"B29" wrote in message
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Thanks Bob,

I did not even think to get pulleys and rope from amateur radio supply
places. I will do some shopping there very soon.

What do you think about feeding the dipole with some sort of balun?

Michael W0EZI


"Bob Miller" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:56:49 GMT, "B29" wrote:

I will use a pulley. The branches I want to use are very high. I cannot
throw or even use my slingshot thingy for this. I have a handyman who has
agreed to climb the trees in the spring. I will get everything ready this
winter.

I have some large trees on each corner of my lot. I can probably get 50
feet
up.

I was going to use nylon rope to attach to the trees but I read that
polyester rope last longer. It is even cheaper. I erroneously thought
that
the more expensive nylon would last longer.

As I understand, black Dacron Polyester is the good stuff. They have
it at AES, the Wireman, RadioWorks, etcetera... I've been using some
surplus olive drab Dacron I got from RadioWorks that is really long
lasting and blends in nicely... Radioworks, by the way, has good
marine-type pullys if that's the direction you're going.

bob
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