Yes, W6AM's poles were "butt-spliced," a technique you can learn about in
Edmund LaPort's classic "Radio Antenna Engineering" (pp 357-358). Many
of the military and commercial Rhombic antenna farms of the 20s, 30s and
40s used spliced poles (butt-splices, lap-splices and A-splices), an art
that is all but forgotten today. Laport's book includes many photographs
of Rhombic-era antennas, most of them installed on poles.
73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed Sleight wrote:
>
> W6AM also never buried a single inch of those poles, and to attain the
> height, he mounted them base to base...been too long to remember the
> specifics, but it was weird looking at poles that grew fatter at they
> got taller.
> 73
> Ed
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