- 1. Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: WW3S <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:25:26 +0000
- I lost my fiberglass pole that I use for a standoff for my inv L off my 50' tower.....second or third time in 12 years or so, victim of the recent ice/snow storm we just had.....I've been using fiber
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- 2. Re: Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:36:46 -0800
- How about PVC conduit, taped to protect it from UV? 73, Jim K9YC _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
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- 3. Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 07:00:33 -0600
- I've used a PVC pipe around 1.5 or 2" o.d. and ~ 3 feet long, for the past 11 years. No problems so far but it is braced with dacron from the insulator end, back up to the mast a few feet above where
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00227.html (7,604 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:20:38 -0400
- VE9AA: I don't have a tower supported Inverted L, but I have a slightly different way of supporting the center of a 20m 4-square array of inverted L's and wanted something non conductive so I use 1.5
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00229.html (7,960 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 08:08:18 -0800
- I've been using 8' 1.5" dia painted fiberglass top and bottom of my 85ft T as standoffs from a fir tree. An 18" long bracket is lagged to the tree both places to make it stable and lower the FG stres
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00231.html (9,287 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Wes <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:05:53 -0700
- FWIW Probably 15-20 years ago I was thinking of building an LPD HF antenna, I purchased two 20 foot lengths of 2" x 1/8" wall square fiberglass tubing for the boom. The antenna never happened and t
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00232.html (10,168 bytes)
- 7. Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Frank VO1HP <invl160@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:45:29 +0000
- At my remote site I have an inverted L that is supported by a 40ft square aluminium lattice frangible" tower. Yes I have it guyed. There is a 14ft fibreglass pole fixed to the top of the tower. There
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00234.html (8,537 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: standoff for inv L (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Lefever via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:19:53 +0000 (UTC)
- I'd likely continue to use the fiberglass but I might fit a hardwood dowel inside its length to stiffen it. PVC can work that way too but you MUST have something to make it rigid. I had a side arm ma
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00246.html (9,057 bytes)
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