[VHFcontesting] Telescoping mast

[Ken Alexander]

Hi Zack,

I do this myself, using aluminum tubing with 0.058" walls. They're light 
and very strong in the sizes you mentioned originally.  However, the fit 
between tubes of "adjacent" sizes can be snug and if one of them 
develops a bit of a bend then you will have difficulty getting them to 
nest into each other, and even greater problems pulling the nested 
sections apart.  I still use my tubes but I don't try to nest them any 
more than a foot or so when constructing my mast.  I store them in a 
bundle of three tubes on my roof rack when moving.

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS


On 2016-06-17 2:16 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
> I'm trying to keep the cost down, so I'm looking into aluminum tubing
> sections that nest into the next size up.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ