[TowerTalk] Mounting 4 square verticals

[Jim Lux]

At 01:09 PM 5/24/2005, Don Havlicek wrote:
>Insulation is inexpensive, as the bottom of a 1/4-wave vertical is a low
>voltage point.
>You can use sheet teflon between the irrigation tubing [which I think is
>overkill for a 40m vertical] and the support.
>Don
>N8DE


What about using some PVC pipe (or sheet) as insulation?


>douglas.snowden at med.va.gov wrote:
> > I am going to be making a trip to the irrigation tubing supplier in a 
> couple
> > of
> > days. Plan on buying several pieces for a 40m 4 square.  I don't have the
> > ambition
> > for a 80m 4 square yet.  My question is:  If I put the pipe on 4X4 pressure
> > treated
> > posts, do I need to worry about insulating them?  I would guess I would 
> have
> > them
> > a foot off the ground.  Or if I elevated them 6 ft or so would that make a
> > difference?
> >
> > I have put verticals up in the past, and was ignorant of any path to ground
> > though the
> > wood I used. I see on the "net" a few pictures of insulated 80 verticals.
> >
> >
> > Doug N4IJ
> >
> >
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