Re: [IRCA] EWE Antenna

[Alan Bosch <labosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick:

Here's a trick for avoiding radial trench digging: rent one of those 
little Mantis tillers with an edger blade used for cleaning up lawn 
borders.  It will slice nicely down 6" or so in a New York Minute.

AlanB

Patrick Martin wrote:

>As I mentioned yesterday, my EWE antenna came down. Apparently on the
>far end I had it wrapped around a nail and it snapped there. After
>looking at the height of the tree limb, I thought this will not be easy
>as the Alder tree has grown a bit in the past few years. I climbed the
>double ladder and after attaching a weight on the end of the wire,
>pushing the weight on top with a 10 foot pole, I was able to easily push
>it over the branch. Fairly easily anyway. It is all back working great.
>The wire looks a bit rough, so I called The WireMan in SC again and
>ordered another 200 feet of the copperclad #13 to replace that with too.
>I can connect it to the end and just pull it through, so no more
>climbing the ladder and all. I still can climb trees and all, but at 56,
>I am not a kid anymore and it takes a bit more.I was going to try the
>slingshot I bought, but the branches are too close together and the
>weight of the #12 is fairly heavy.
>   I pulled up my radials yesterday for the vertical and then buried 14
>or them so far and it works pretty well. I want to add the other 16 in
>time, but I wanted to get something going. Digging little trenches in
>the ground a couple inches deep through blackberry brambles was not too
>easy. My fingers tell me that today. hi.
>    I can easily say though without a doubt, the hundreds of hours I
>have spent redoing antennas is sure worth it. But it does take a lot of
>work. 
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>
>Patrick Martin
>Seaside  OR
>KAVT Reception Manager
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