[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 2006

[Cooper, Stewart]

This year I hope to be operating portable in IOTA 2006 from a beach a long way away. I see a lot of adverts around for lightweight portable antennas (Buddipole, Pacific,  etc.) which are all loaded in some way. I can't see why I just can't make quarter wave verticals for 20 / 15m. I don't like coils!
Has anyone tried making one from standard aluminium tubing with perhaps a telescopic top section? How did you join the telescopic bit to the main bit? How do you ground mount it? I want it to be less than 60cm long collapsed. Any advice welcome.
Sorry for the slightly off-topic bandwidth. Please reply direct.

Stewart
GM4AFF

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