Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23373 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2002 17:21:53 -0000 Received: from marstons.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.223) by mailstore with SMTP; 27 Oct 2002 17:21:53 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: (qmail 8883 invoked by uid 10001); 27 Oct 2002 18:26:17 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by marstons.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 2002 18:26:17 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.10) id 185r6U-0000AJ-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:21:34 +0000 Received: from [147.197.200.9] (helo=hestia.herts.ac.uk) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 185r6U-0000AA-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:21:34 +0000 Received: from gemini ([147.197.200.44] helo=gemini.herts.ac.uk) by hestia.herts.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 185r5N-00007X-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:20:25 +0000 Received: from [147.197.232.252] (helo=rsch-15.herts.ac.uk) by gemini.herts.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 185r5L-0005mj-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:20:23 +0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20021027165410.00b08008@gemini.herts.ac.uk> X-Sender: mj9ar@gemini.herts.ac.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:14:32 +0000 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "James Moritz" In-reply-to: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MailScanner: No Virus detected Subject: Re: LF: Guy ropes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0tests=DEAR_SOMEBODY,IN_REP_TO,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01version=2.42 Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group > >Any suggestions as to a stronger guy rope - the rope goes up though a tree >and over the fine branches at the top of the tree. Thus, there is a fair >degree of movement at times. > >73 John, G3WKL Dear John, LF Group, At my previous QTH I had an antenna like this - In the end I decided the best bet was to provide a weak link. Where the rope going over the tree came to ground level, instead of tying it directly to an anchor point, it was fastened with a link of fairly thin wire which would take the tension normally, but break if the tree was thrashing around in a gale. This allowed several metres of rope to pay out and slacken the antenna wire. When the gale stopped, the rope was pulled tight again and the link replaced - this only happened a couple of times in a few years, and saved having to get the rope over the tree again. Cheers, Jim Moritz 73 de M0BMU