Something else to beware of is plastic at the connectors. I got a
dipole some time back that had each side of the dipole and the connector
attached to a piece of plastic. In about two years the plastic had
cracked, and broken losing one half the dipole. I continued to RECEIVE
ONLY on the half that was left. Now the whole thing is down! I suppose
I'll have to put up another antenna of my own some time in the future.
There'll be no plastic exposed to sunlight.

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CW wrote:

Bungee cords and sunlight don't get along. Works if you replace often
enough. A pulley and weight are better.

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
.. .

Over the next week or so I'm planning on doing some
tweaking to my random wire antenna outside, and
I came across something on either the net or in a book
that recommended bungee cord for an outside antenna
to relieve the slack during wind gusts. I was planning
on just keeping a standard poly rope, but I was wondering
what the group thought of the idea of a bungee cord.

--Mike L.