[TowerTalk] 160 Inverted L Question

[Jim Rhodes]

I would, of course, recommend the glass bottles.  If you can stabilize it
properly a glass bottle would make a good insulator. Keeping it dry on the
inside might be an issue, but short term no problem.


On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:29 PM Mike Ryan <mryan001 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

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>     Some years ago I ran across an article about someone using a COKE / pop
> bottle as the base insulator for a 160 vertical. Others may have
> other/better ideas. A friend is going to try to use roughly 40ft of metal
> tubing vertical and wants to insulate from ground the vertical component
> then run the remaining length of wire horizontal. ARRL Antenna books have
> some ideas but did not see any with the thought of insulating the base in
> mind.  Ideas ?   - Mike
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