[TowerTalk] 80m vertical ideas / questions

Bill Coleman aa4lr at arrl.net
Fri Dec 31 14:24:07 EST 2021


Perhaps UHDPE plastic cylinders would do as well as fiberglass?

> On Dec 31, 2021, at 6:52 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If your vertical is
> out in the open on flat land and you have a wind storm, it will
> destroy plastic leg insulators and the ceramic ones hams find aren't
> made for this.  Not sure about the fiberglass cylinders that fit
> inside the legs.   Maybe they are more robust.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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