[600MRG] /20 transmit antenna

[Edward R Cole]

Rudy,'

Can you install guy lines to hold against the antenna wire?  Might 
have to be non-metallic or split up with strain-relief insulators (I 
have them on the top 50-foot for one of my towers).

73, Ed - KL7UW
hoping to get eme array back into the air today (holds the Tx end of 
my inverted-L so will enable getting it back up).

At 09:20 AM 2/11/2014, Rudy Severns wrote:
>I've learned to have great regard for icing on large wire 
>antennas!  The antenna itself was undamaged.  The problem was the 
>soil, it was very soft and the forces at the top of the poles was 
>great enough to move the base a bit causing the poles to tip out of 
>position just enough to detune the antenna.  The problem is there's 
>an 80' lever arm on one side of the fulcrum (the top of the pipe at 
>ground level) and 7' on the other so there's a lot of force right at 
>the top of the pipe at the ground surface.
>
>I've since pushed and shimmed the poles back to vertical but I still 
>need to fuss a bit compacting the soil around the bases.  The poles 
>went up last summer and we had a very dry fall and early winter so 
>the soil backfill hadn't really consolidated.  At the last QTH where 
>I had much larger poles I put a concrete ring around the base at 
>ground level.  I wanted to avoid that here but maybe I'll have to do it.
>
>I'll be fiddling with the antenna for a while before I get back on 
>the air. I may even redesign it to have a lot less horizontal wire 
>up in the air. Not that we expect such a storm anytime soon but who knows??
>
>73, Rudy
>
>
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73, Ed - KL7UW
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