"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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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 )
.
.
iane ~ RHF
.
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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'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.

Michael Lawson wrote:

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.



Heh. Can't find a url to show you.

Take two long pieces of wire, double over, insert each into one end of a
compression spring, bend all wire ends out and over the ends of the
springs.

Pull on the wire loops, and the spring compresses.

These are availible commercially.

Tying off the antenna will result in the antenna wire stretching, so you
will have to tie off more often than you might like.

The easy way to keep the kids off the antenna might be to borrow a fence
charger for a while. It takes a wife with a certain sense of humor to
not kill you afterwords, of course.

Or a wife with enough sense to realize kids have to learn what "Don't
touch" means.

"Offbreed" wrote in message
...
Michael Lawson wrote:

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.



Heh. Can't find a url to show you.

Take two long pieces of wire, double over, insert each into one end
of a
compression spring, bend all wire ends out and over the ends of the
springs.

Pull on the wire loops, and the spring compresses.

These are availible commercially.

Tying off the antenna will result in the antenna wire stretching, so
you
will have to tie off more often than you might like.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Something
similar can be used on screen doors. I'll think about
it.

The easy way to keep the kids off the antenna might be to borrow a
fence
charger for a while. It takes a wife with a certain sense of humor
to
not kill you afterwords, of course.

Or a wife with enough sense to realize kids have to learn what
"Don't
touch" means.

Ha. Good luck trying to explain that one to the
child support people.

--Mike L.

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:39:58 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

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.

Cleat.