[TowerTalk] Lexan and element linkage

Joe L Blackwell aa4nn@juno.com
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:53:31 -0400


On leg of my 160 dipole slopes off a 90ft tower at about a 30
degree angle.  Three different types of end insulators completely
burned up after a while.  A small rectangular piece of lexan is
hanging in there over a year now.
73, de Joe AA4NN

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:38:24 -0700 "Mike Nash, ND6A" <nd6a@arrl.net>
writes:
> 
> Lexan, I thought everyone knew about this wonderful and glorius
product.
> Polycorbonate is the generic term for it...Unbreakable, Damn near UV 
> PROOF, bullet proof, and in my experience RF will not harm it.

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