[TowerTalk] Non-metallic towers and guy wires

[Jim White, K4OJ]

...there is an old QST - circa 60's I think that had a picture of a 
"topped" tree with a rotator and yagi on it.  I would hate to have to 
use those tree climbing leg dagger boots but can see where this is a 
workable solution!  I bet if someone did that today they would have the 
entire village of environmental whackos upon them!

Racing cars/bicycles have a lot of carbon products that are lightweight 
but very strong - while an antenna modeling dream, a non-metallic tower 
has financially got to be out of the question.

73,

Jim, K4OJ



Red wrote:

> In days of old, when trees grew tall and straight, many towers and other 
> structures were built of wood.
> 
> Utility poles are good for some purposes.  The station, Desert Voices, 
> near Farmington, MN, built and operated to support MARS during Desert 
> Storm, had stacked rhombics on 90 foot poles loaned and erected by a 
> local utility company.
> 
> 73 de WOØW
> 
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