Yeah, I think the pulleys are a great idea.  Who wants to raise and 
lower 30 or 40 feet  of guyed steel mast, just to tinker with the 
feedline  or repair the inevitable broken wire.

73, Steve KW3A



On 4/14/2011 10:08 AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:
> I use a pulley and a line.  The wire holds the antennas away from the mast.
> That way if the feed lines need to be worked on, I just run the extra line
> through the pulley bring it down fix it and pull it up.  Kind of like
> raising and lowering the flag.  A little metal doesn't do much harm.  The
> other thing a friend of mine did, was place a 1 meg ohm resistor across the
> feed point.  The ohm meter is a much easier way to see if the feed line is
> broken, than brining the antenna system down.
>