[Milsurplus] Question About Guy Wires

[Dave Maples]

Clete: A "vang" is defined in sailing as a pair of ropes from the end of a
gaff to opposite sides of the deck.  A "gaff" is defniued as the spar on
which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.  If you search "gaff
rigging" you can see the diagram for a gaff in relation to a sailing mast.

I suspect they were called "vang guys" because they function much the same
as the vangs that anchor a gaff on a boat, but I could be wrong.

Thanks,
Dave WB4FUR

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de WB2CPN
My memory needs an Unwiggle.
Look in your TM'S, etc, and find the page
where the instructions for erecting masts such
as the one used with the TRC-1 are found.
I've erected many of them, and even the WWII
masts made of wood slabs.
There was a "back guy", and a "front guy" from
which the antenna was pulled up.
There was a guy on each side to keep the antenna
from falling over sideways.  We used a "gin pole",
which was guyed on both sides to keeep the gin pole
in the center.
What was the name of these guys on the sides, and
I'm not looking for a name like "side guys" which was
used in this month's QST.  (I think ARRL just discovered
the gin pole.)
In the time frame 1946 - 1965 we called them
"vang guys".  I think that was in the TM.
Vang is not in my Dictionary, so why did we call them
that?  If it's an acronym I can't decode it.
73   Clete in South Central PA
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