[Milsurplus] Question About Guy Wires

[C.Whitaker]

Dave,
No, I think you are absolutely right.
Just picture the raising of a mast by using
a gin pole.  While the mast is on the ground,
the gin pole is stood up near vertical while
the guy wires are tied to the mast.
The vang guys, one each side of the gin pole,
are tied to the two anchors on the sides.
They serve the same purpose as they would
with the gaff, keep the gin pole where it belongs
as it is pulled down to the ground..
Vang is not in my College Webster.
After all these years, now I know,
Tnx  73   Clete
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On 5/18/2013 6:03 PM, Dave Maples wrote:
> 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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> Subject: [Milsurplus] Question About Guy Wires
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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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