keeping wire antennas up
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:36:01 -0800, "Juan M."
wrote:
A problem seeking a solution.
John,
Come on down South!
Greenville, SC is a lovely place!
Fred
W4FCM
I live in a wooded area of the Pacific Northwest with dozens of fir trees of
100 ft or more in height that make wonderful supports for high dipoles and
other wire antennas. These particular trees have very few limbs at anything
below the 60 ft level so using a crossbow or slingshot for installation is
not practical. I have been forced to employ a professional tree climber to
install the eyebolts and halyards. Using this system, the antennas can be
raised and lowered for maintenance or modification.
This system works fine until our winter storms kick in. Often, during those
storms, a tree will lose a limb or two and take the antenna down with it. I
am then left with a halyard tied to an insulator 50 ft or more above the
ground with no way to get the insulator back down short of hiring another
costly climber.
Does anyone have any solutions to this problem?
73,
John
AE7P
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