[Elecraft] Where to guy?

[W2BLC]

Needs to be guyed in the middle (just below a joint) and the top (just 
below the actual top). Use a hose clamp to hold a metal ring or two in 
place - which will become your guying points. Use something like Kevlar 
rope (1/8"from Radio Works), which is nonconducting and very strong.

I no longer have a full sized vertical, only an R5. However, the above 
is what I used for years in the past and it was very effective - the 
various verticals survived 75 MPH winds, ice. etc. (all the finest the 
northeast can throw at you).

Now I use NVIS antennas for the K3 - just armchair quality rag chews. 
Even that system is over built with 4-way guying of a 25 foot tubular 
tower and #12 insulated wire (either copper-clad multi-strand or 
Flex-Weave from The WireMan). If the winds damage it, I probably won't 
have a house still standing.

Bill W2BLC - K-Line