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The guy wire stuff has arrived and good news. The guy wire ring fits the 2-3/8" mast just fine after I swapped out a bit longer eye bolts. Also, I changed my mind on how I am anchoring the pulley at the bottom. I am going to anchor it in the concrete instead of using a sheave between bottome part of the two poles. I am still using a sheave at the top and a pulley about half-way up the mast. I'm told this should work but I am going to thoroughly test the range of motion with just the mast first to make sure there are no snags raising/lowering the antennae. The winch and pulleys may seem like overkill but 30 feet of schedule 40 2" nominal black pipe, two schedule 40 joint sleeves, a 9 pound rotor, the M104C and V58 do add up. I want to be able to easily raise/lower this setup whenever I want for tuning, experimenting or whatever. Plus the little kid in me is having fun mucking about with all of this stuff.

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<blockquote data-quote="TimmyTheTorch" data-source="post: 815850" data-attributes="member: 64271">The guy wire stuff has arrived and good news. The guy wire ring fits the 2-3/8&quot; mast just fine after I swapped out a bit longer eye bolts. Also, I changed my mind on how I am anchoring the pulley at the bottom. I am going to anchor it in the concrete instead of using a sheave between bottome part of the two poles. I am still using a sheave at the top and a pulley about half-way up the mast.&nbsp; I&#039;m told this should work but I am going to thoroughly test the range of motion with just the mast first to make sure there are no snags raising/lowering the antennae. The winch and pulleys may seem like overkill but 30 feet of schedule 40 2&quot; nominal black pipe, two schedule 40 joint sleeves, a 9 pound rotor, the M104C and V58 do add up. I want to be able to easily raise/lower this setup whenever I want for tuning, experimenting or whatever. Plus the little kid in me is having fun mucking about with all of this stuff.[ATTACH=full]63689[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 815850, member: 64271"] The guy wire stuff has arrived and good news. The guy wire ring fits the 2-3/8" mast just fine after I swapped out a bit longer eye bolts. Also, I changed my mind on how I am anchoring the pulley at the bottom. I am going to anchor it in the concrete instead of using a sheave between bottome part of the two poles. I am still using a sheave at the top and a pulley about half-way up the mast. I'm told this should work but I am going to thoroughly test the range of motion with just the mast first to make sure there are no snags raising/lowering the antennae. The winch and pulleys may seem like overkill but 30 feet of schedule 40 2" nominal black pipe, two schedule 40 joint sleeves, a 9 pound rotor, the M104C and V58 do add up. I want to be able to easily raise/lower this setup whenever I want for tuning, experimenting or whatever. Plus the little kid in me is having fun mucking about with all of this stuff. [ATTACH type="full"]63689[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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