Want to stay in good health and have a goodly supply of antenna insulators?
Take the one a day type vitamins, and when you empty the plastic bottles,
(white ones), you have a low loss insulator which is tough enough to hold up
no. 14 insulated house wire as dipole or Zepp elements. The larger bottles
make a good form for choke Balun, or for simply supporting a ladder line, by
wrapping it around the bottle circumference, and securing the feeder to
itself with wide vinyl tape.
We use Extended Double Zepps for field day, cut for 80m and load them on all
other bands with transmatches. All their insulators are plastic bottles, and
we have used them for some years. IF one does tear, it is simple to replace
it with another saved empty plastic bottle. The white type is a soft
material and just a screw bit or nail will punch holes for antenna wires
and lanyards. The best thing for end insulators, is to simply drill the
hard plastic caps, and knot a lanyard into the center of the lid. Then,
screw the lid on the end insulator bottle and you are ready to go.
72,
Stuart K5KVH
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