I have a question, how is the antenna supported? What I learned long ago, is 
if you can get the rope over the branch or what ever it's over, then have it 
come down and be tied off around a height you can reach, with enough extra 
rope that you can lower the antenna to the ground and still have rope you 
can reach to pull it back up, it's a lot easier to fix things without help. 
I don't know if you can do that or not but that's how I did it, then I 
rapped the rest of the rope up in a coil and hung it from the branch since 
at that QTH, the tree the center of my antennas was tied off to was over 80 
feet tall and I was right at the top branches with the rope. It used an 
incredible amount of rope but anything broke, I could fix it as long as the 
rope itself didn't break up at the antenna.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 8:11 PM
Subject: Antenna problem


>I hate to re-introduce things that have already been discusssed but I
> am having a problem with my Carolina Windem.  The last time i was on
> forty meters, the G5RV outperformed the Windem significantly.  I will
> try more comparisons but perhaps the ballun has failed and I am
> looking at a replacement.  My back yard situation makes raising and
> lowering the antenna a bit problematic and finding eyes attached to
> good antena folks is dificult, so I am thinking it is time to do
> something different when I round up that antenna crew.
> I can do sixty-six feet either side of open wire line reasonably
> easily and could have a balun where the feed line comes in to the
> crawl space.  I want a 75 and forty meter antena that will do a
> credible job.  And of course I could replace the balun on the
> existing setup.  The Windem has done very well when it is right.
> What is the collective wisdom?
> Thanks.
> Pat, K9JAU