[MRCA] Antenna Storm Tip

[Christopher Bowne]

Sounds like you learned this lesson at the School of Hard Knocks!  I am also a graduate of that school.  Over the years my wire antenna systems all have evolved so they can easily be taken down and up as conditions warrant and for easy repairs should something break.  Like when a large hen turkey flew into and got tangled up in a 160 meter extension of my multiband dipole.  All lift points of the wire antennas are via halyards though pulleys that in turn are attached to their own loops of line attached to dedicated masts or shot over tree branches.  I use bungee cords to tension the antenna halyards and provide for some stress relief under normal windy conditions.  Under high winds I slack the halyards a bit or for predicted very severe conditions drop the antennas completely to the ground.  When the storm passes they go back up in a few minutes.  I do have to keep an eye on the halyards for breakage due to wear at the points where they are constantly moving back and forth over the pulleys of the halyard blocks.

73 de Chris AJ1G Stonington CT 
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> On Jan 4, 2025, at 20:47, B. Smith via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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>    It is easier to lower your wire antennas to the ground before a snow/ice event then it is to later do numerous repairs  and put antennas back up after the event.
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