[UK-CONTEST] Fibre glass poles

[Clive Whelan]

Thanks Bob

It's not clear if this was a Spiderbeam pole? Their quality seems 
superior to the average ( well it is German, we should expect that!) and 
actually looks visually more like PVC rainwater goods, but clearly is 
not. Somewhere on the web site there is a link to a W9 who is using the 
18m unit fixed to a short piece of RSJ in concrete ( about 5ft I think) 
as a full size 80m vertical, and there is a pic of it in a 60mph gale. 
The top seems almost to touch the ground, but it apparently survives. 
All that said, in my case with the 12m unit , there seems no reason not 
to use say 1m sleeved onto the tree stake if I can engineer it.


Hey this is not strictly about contests so I'd better QRT now ;-) 

73



Clive

Bob G3PJT wrote:
> Hi  Clive
>
> This depends on the wind conditions, my experience has been that unless 
> they are properly supported to about 5-6 feet you do risk them folding over.
> But that said you can repair them with a splint and a supply of tie wraps!
> I have one element of the 4 square here which seemed quite susceptible 
> to wind damage and I found that it was because when the wind blew it 
> touched a branch of a tree - this didn't look very significant but it 
> was enough to cause a problem.
>
> 73 Bob G3PJT
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