[bars] Blustery Bands

[Christopher Lennon]

My home antennae are all end fed of various sorts and are fed out on a
clothes line that goes from an upstairs window to a convenient tree.  When
the weather is fair I will leave  my favorite EFHW up for days, but
recently it has been so blustery that it stays safely tucked up indoors!

Chris
W2BPL

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 10:22 AM Tim - K1DC via bars <bars at w1hh.org> wrote:

> Good thinking to lower your antenna!  Mine would require a tromp through
> the woods to get to the raising rope.  Honestly, I missed the forecast of
> the high winds.
>
> I use 4in 'clothesline' pulleys from the 'home improvement' store.  One at
> each end and one at the feed point.  I end up with two ropes at each
> location but the pulley rarely comes down - mostly only if the rope
> supporting the wire jumps the pulley.  I'm sure at some point the UV will
> break down the plastic pulley but they are soooooo much cheaper than the
> stainless ones that I can afford to replace them a few times and still be
> ahead.
>
> T.
> On 12/30/2025 9:49, David Marcucci wrote:
>
> No thuds here, luckily, but I did lower my wire antenna last night. When I
> went to pull it back up this morning, its "pully" was frozen. The pully is
> a rope around a tree branch, so I hope it thaws or comes loose because I
> don't want to be outside today.
>
> 73,
> Dave KC1TLF
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM Tim - K1DC via bars <bars at w1hh.org> wrote:
>
>> The winds at my QTH (Andover MA) were CRAZY last night!  I heard a few
>> 'thuds' overnight as various trees/tree parts hit the ground around me.  I
>> thought for sure I had lost my 6/432 mast but that crazy Frankenstein
>> contraption held!   The shrapnel managed to miss my only remaining wire
>> antenna, a 80/60/30 fan dipole. I had lost most everything else with my
>> 'Christmas Tree' surprise earlier in the month.  It seems I dodged a very
>> fast bullet.
>>
>> I hope everyone was as lucky as me!
>>
>> 73 & Happy New Year!
>>
>> Tim/K1DC
>>
>>
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> imagination." -- *Albert Einstein*
>
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