The heart of the detuning skirt is the 1/8 inch, 1 X 19 Stainless Steel Wire.

• The Breaking Strength of the wire is approximately 1700 pounds.  For this application, the wire is virtually industructable.

• The weight of the wire is less than 5.0 pounds per 100 feet--making it very easy to install on the tower.

• The wire is corrission resistant.  It does not rust as does copper, copperweld and steel.  Should never need replacing again.

• The scrap value of stainless is very low, so it is unlikely to be stolen.

• Because of its very small size, the wind load is very minimal

• Becasue it's temperature coefficient is relatively stable, springs are not required to keep the wire tight.

                                     Combined Turnbuckle / Insulator

• The bottom of the detuning skirt must be insulated from the tower and therefore requires an insulator.

• Normally this piece is separate and often has to have a spring, thus more work for the tower climbers to install.

• This combined piece is galvanized and only requires two shackles to install--one on wires and one on bracket.

• The turnbuckle is long enouch to give plenty of travel to easily tightened the wires coming down the tower.

                          Aluminum Brackets

A monopole tower will either have six or eight sides.  The bracket will have six.  The bracket hugs the tower and is connected with three 12” X ½” threaded rods.  The diameters I provide must hug the tower.  The top diameters are more critical than the bottom as the top diameters is much smaller than the bottom.  There are four sets – the top and bottom brackets are made with 3” aluminum, and the two middle brackets are made with 2” aluminum.