[TowerTalk] Pipe Mast

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Frank T. Brady wrote:
> All but one of the replies I've had have been negative.  I think the main
>concern was about my closing remarks about whether or not pipes could be
>coupled together as a mast. Obviously, in retrospect, that was nonsense.

Well, maybe not total nonsense - just the proposed idea of joining the
pipes using connectors  :-)

There was a design for a tilt-over pipe mast of similar construction in
the old ARRL Antenna Handbooks for many years.

73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek

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