<div dir="auto"><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">Chris </div><div dir="auto">W2BPL</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my phone.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 10:22\u202fAM Tim - K1DC via bars <<a href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org">bars@w1hh.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p><font face="Verdana" size="4">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.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="4">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.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" size="4">T.</font></p>
<div>On 12/30/2025 9:49, David Marcucci
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at
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<p><font size="4" face="Verdana">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Verdana">I hope everyone was as
lucky as me!</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Verdana">73 & Happy New Year!</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Verdana">Tim/K1DC</font></p>
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