I'm not sure if this is the right way Pete, but my "corner insulator" on one of my 160m inverted L's is a 1/2" x 90* grey electrical type of PVC elbow that I bent using a heat gun. You could also buy them premade at home depot or whatever.
I threw a rope over a Maple tree and tied and taped the elbow to the rope (center of the radius), ran my 127' of wire through the elbow and then raised it up in the air. For a little better access, I could've put the rope through a pulley, but ropes tend to last longer if just going over branches around here....or so it seems. Ropes and wires through (cheap) pulleys tend to break them. I don't know if I have ever seen this method used anywhere else, but I sometimes use this on longer wires, like the 160m L. I've never had a wire break @ the PVC elbow yet. Course, I do still have ropes break from time to time. Mother Nature is a fierce opponent. GL Mike VE9AA - - I'm in the process of putting my inverted L back up, and have a construction question - how do you position and attach the corner insulator? My support for the vertical section is an old maple, plenty tall but only really reachable with a pull-up rope by firing a tennis-ball gun over it. The first time I put this up, I used a pulley with a deep insulated sleeve and passed the inverted L wire through the pulley. Neat, it seemed - the corner was automatically positioned to keep the vertical portion the right length. Unfortunately, over a year or so, the antenna wire flexing over the pulley caused it to break, so this time around I'd like to use a rope through the pulley and an insulator at the corner. Question is how best to do it, to minimize strain on the antenna wire, making it more durable. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
