At 12:59 1/11/2002 -0500, N4ZR wrote:
>I'm looking for material for a 25-foot-tall non-conductive mast to use with
>a K9AY loop. PVC, even sched 40 and 80, has not proved stiff enough.
>Fiberglass should work but the pricing I've seen for pre-packaged kits
>seems out of line. anyone got a line on a source for telescoping siuzes of
>fiberglass tubing and rod, such that I could splice 4 6-foot pieces of
>tubing together?
Consider material(s) other than fiberglass or PVC. I'm using wooden closet
rod. Home Depot here stocks it in two different diameters - 1 1/4" & 1
1/2" I think
in lengths up to about 16 ft. I got a 16 ft'er and another shorter length
and spliced
them together with a short piece of split PVC pipe. Put on a couple of
coats of
marine spar varnish for weather protection and attached it to a metal "U"
fence post with a couple
of small bolts. One bolt acts as a pivot to tilt the pole up/down when
erecting the mast.
Attached the loops at the top to function as guys. Works fine.
73 Phil NA4M
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Phil Duff NA4M na4m@arrl.net Georgetown, Texas
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