Needs to be guyed in the middle (just below a joint) and the top (just
below the actual top). Use a hose clamp to hold a metal ring or two in
place - which will become your guying points. Use something like Kevlar
rope (1/8"from Radio Works), which is nonconducting and very strong.
I no longer have a full sized vertical, only an R5. However, the above
is what I used for years in the past and it was very effective - the
various verticals survived 75 MPH winds, ice. etc. (all the finest the
northeast can throw at you).
Now I use NVIS antennas for the K3 - just armchair quality rag chews.
Even that system is over built with 4-way guying of a 25 foot tubular
tower and #12 insulated wire (either copper-clad multi-strand or
Flex-Weave from The WireMan). If the winds damage it, I probably won't
have a house still standing.
Bill W2BLC - K-Line
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