That is great idea. I have a piece of plastic pipe extending out about 6 ft
from the tower, about 45ft from the gnd, it is 2" ABS plastic pipe with a
hole in the end so just need to run the cord through there without the
pulley idea. I ran the ladder line straight up, the pipe holds the entire
weight of the dipole, ladder line which I spun a few times for wind
resistence. I have always had luck with that dipole, and really wondering
why it failed. It shouldn't have as it is only about 2 years old. I must
have damaged it when doing other things. That is my goal today to bring that
down and find the damage and repair it.

Now here is my querry ,,, I have a omni antenna I purchased at ham fest
years ago. I had it up on the tower for SWL for longest time and worked well
and also worked well when in transmit.

i used the big tunner to keep what I thought was safe levels of returned
power. I want to put this back up and use with big tuner and 1970
transceiver.

http://www.intelgold.com/vk4uq/manua...KR%20-%203.pdf

http://www.intelgold.com/vk4uq/manua...KR%20-%202.pdf

Now I can fabricate some aluminum gnd planes to go with this, this should be
on the ground but I want it in the air. While the traps and entire antenna
looks good shape, how can I tell if those traps are in working shape before
spending all the time cleaning it up, erecting it, etc etc, only to find it
is dead? The traps are completely sealed in there, the antenna looks about
as old as the transceiver, if not older. I am on a shoe string budget of
course so I cannot buy one of those fancy all band omni antennas, I have to
build.

Please comment on this antenna and my ideas about getting it working 50 feet
above the gnd.

Thanks

73s





"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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I think you are right in your statement of breaking the dipole or feedline
upon installing the tv antenna.

The tv antenna feedline is no where near the ladder line, about 4 feet
distance.

I suppose my next move is to pull down the dipole, check, and either fix
or eliminate that as my problem. I was hoping I didn't have to do that.
But if that copper solid wire, both in ladder line and dipole had
fractured, I would think it would be visible from gnd (about 35 feet
height). All worked before the tv antenna installation, and yes there was
a lot of banging and jamming and bumping of that dipole while installing
the TV antenna but nothing is visuably broken, maybe a hairline fracture.
Looks like a climb is in order. That is not one of my most favorite
things, climbing 50 feet above the ground on a self supporting tower. I
hate climbing but do it every time. I will let you know how I make out,
probably climb today or tomorrow, looks like rain.

Thanks and 73s



While you are up there you may want to extend a pieceof pipe off the
tower and put a pulely on it. Then put a loop of small rope that goes to
the pulley and back to the ground. That way you will not have to climb
the tower as often.