I am sorry for your loss. In 2007-09, we had a drought which killed a number of old trees. I was not a ham then, but I am careful where my wires go now.
So far so good with the new locations. But the limbs are too small for them to install a pulley. It’s just Dacron rope thrown over the limb. The Dacron rope is tough though. I just tug on it once a month to make sure the limb isn’t growing around it. That happened to me before I had pulleys installed. If these two trees die, I’m out of antenna trees.
I am glad to have the antennas back up. The limbs were too small for them to climb on to install a pulley, but the Dacron rope is strong enough. I just need to give it a tug once a month to be sure the limb doesn’t start to grow around it.
No significant difference with the Doublet but the ZS6BKW is better, at the expense of the SWR. The SWR of the ZS6BKW is worse on the 20m band now. I now have to touch it up on the lower end of the 20m band whereas it needed no antenna match for 20m before. I attribute this to the fact that it is no longer an inverted V. The tree guy removed my rope on one end without telling me. I had already lowered the middle but the wanted the rope and wire on one side completely on the ground. He said he would put it back up. When he put it back, he threw his bag so high that it made that side of the antenna completely horizontal. The other side is still angled downward, for inverted V. So I have a combination flat top and V.
@@n4hnhradio i understand. Sorry. Trees are a wonderful gift. Could anything have been done or is it that once diseased there’s nothing that can be done? If you addressed that question sorry if I missed it. Makes me think I need to call a tree surgeon to check mine out.
I saw white spits around the lower portion of the truck of both trees. The arborist said they would die. One died and the other was dying. It was less expensive to remove both at once. The disease appears to have been cankers.
I am sorry for your loss. In 2007-09, we had a drought which killed a number of old trees. I was not a ham then, but I am careful where my wires go now.
If I lose these, I guess I will have to resort to a mast pole or beg my neighbor to use one of his trees to support the high end of an EFHW.
That was quite the project!
So far so good with the new locations. But the limbs are too small for them to install a pulley. It’s just Dacron rope thrown over the limb. The Dacron rope is tough though. I just tug on it once a month to make sure the limb isn’t growing around it. That happened to me before I had pulleys installed. If these two trees die, I’m out of antenna trees.
Sorry for your loss. That’s the problem in dealing with trees I guess. Best of luck.
If the trees that are supporting them now die, I’m in trouble. There are no others on my 1/3 acre that are suitable.
Sorry you lost your trees Doug, it was nice that the tree trimmer's could re-install the antennas.
I am glad to have the antennas back up. The limbs were too small for them to climb on to install a pulley, but the Dacron rope is strong enough. I just need to give it a tug once a month to be sure the limb doesn’t start to grow around it.
I use 2 aluminum 32’ spider beams with a 130’ end fed in a dipole position after having the same issues. 73
Resourceful. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Sorry you lost those trees Doug. Now that the antennas are back up, and a little higher, I wonder how the reception is?
No significant difference with the Doublet but the ZS6BKW is better, at the expense of the SWR. The SWR of the ZS6BKW is worse on the 20m band now. I now have to touch it up on the lower end of the 20m band whereas it needed no antenna match for 20m before. I attribute this to the fact that it is no longer an inverted V. The tree guy removed my rope on one end without telling me. I had already lowered the middle but the wanted the rope and wire on one side completely on the ground. He said he would put it back up. When he put it back, he threw his bag so high that it made that side of the antenna completely horizontal. The other side is still angled downward, for inverted V. So I have a combination flat top and V.
Uggg - time for the engineer/magician to come out in you
Ha!
Bummer. I’m hoping my trees are ok. No idea but the seem ok to me. They’re all I have going for me antenna wise.
Mine were diseased.
@@n4hnhradio i understand. Sorry. Trees are a wonderful gift.
Could anything have been done or is it that once diseased there’s nothing that can be done? If you addressed that question sorry if I missed it.
Makes me think I need to call a tree surgeon to check mine out.
I saw white spits around the lower portion of the truck of both trees. The arborist said they would die. One died and the other was dying. It was less expensive to remove both at once. The disease appears to have been cankers.