[Antennas] Tower alternatives

[Doug Person]

Use philistrain (not sure of the correct spelling - available from Texas 
Towers) which is non-conductive and hang your dipoles from it as you like.

Doug -- K0DXV

John Hensley wrote:
> I guess I'm embarassed now :-) ... the dipole measures and phases areobvious to me but what I am unsure about is how to have a strong guyand at the same time, a coax connection that does not corrode or weatheraway.  Any stranded steel rope is going to wick water up to the connectorso a crimped connector would be iffy after some time; dissimilar metalswill encourage galvanic action; so I guess this is simply a choice of theleast offensive maintenance style ??
>
> From: K3vw at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:23 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Antennas] Tower alternatives
> To: w5jv at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yes John, you have just re-invented the wheel !! We have been feeding our 
> guy wires as inverted V's for about 49 years now. Many other hams have also. 
> They work good. We don't talk about them because they are so simple!! Willy 
> K3VW
>  
>
> In a message dated 9/30/2009 1:12:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> w5jv at hotmail.com writes:
>
> The 
>   feedback on towers has been great.  Thanks again to everyone.
> Are 
>   there any caveats on using the guy wires as inverted-V dipoles?If each guy 
>   wire had four equally spaced legs, two sets of guy wirescould be configured as 
>   two sets of 80m and 40m inverted-V antennas180 degrees out of phase on each 
>   band.  Has anyone tried this.
> John           
>                  
>   
> _________________________________________________________________
> Microsoft 
>   brings you a new way to search the web.  Try  Bing™ 
>   now
> http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try 
>   bing_1x1
> ______________________________________________________________
> Antennas 
>   mailing list
> Home: 
>   http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/antennas
> Help: 
>   http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: 
>   mailto:Antennas at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: 
>   http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: 
>   http://www.qsl.net/donate.html 		 	   		  
> _________________________________________________________________
> Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®.
> http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009
> ______________________________________________________________
> Antennas mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/antennas
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Antennas at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>
>