Subject: Re: [Antennas] Telescoping Aluminum Tubing

Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:34:28 -0800

Van,

Thanks for the plug on the eBay auction item.  BTW, I now have a web site
set up for these: www.geocities.com/tmastco.

Let me know if you need any more.

73 & Happy New Year,
Henry Pollock - K4TMC

On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 02:09:24 -0600 van lincoln wd8aam
<[email protected]> writes:
> here is what you guys need.  I've got one, and they work for
> portable or permanent installation.  you can buy two and get 60+ 
> feet
> because they are stiff and won't bend.
> van wd8aam
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1317168301
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:15 PM 1/3/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >Didnot someone here talk about pulling up a vertical of about 60ft 
> by using 
> >a tall tree?
> >
> >I have been thinking about a method of pulling part of the 
> telescoping part 
> >up by itself.  Now how do the telescoping antennas for cars work? 
> This I 
> >have been trying to find out.
> >
> >  I think that the stain on the 'walking' up may prove too much.  I 
> tried 
> >on some of my putting together of a mast of various pipes.  Put a 
> small 
> >kink in one section.
> >
> >Chris opr VE7HCB
> >
> >
> >
> >At 09:34 PM 2002-01-03 -0800, you wrote:
> >>Thanks to all for the useful information my post generated.
> >>Assuming I purchase 6' lengths of 6063-T832 drawn aluminum tubing 
> (the 
> >>tubing where each size telescopes into the adjacent sizes) from 
> Texas 
> >>Towers, how high a vertical do you think I could erect with one 
> person 
> >>walking the tubing up and another person holding the bottom on the 
> ground? 
> >>If I purchased each size and telescoped them with a 1' overlap, I 
> >>calculate I would have a 76' length.  Assuming the tubing didn't 
> buckle, I 
> >>think erecting it would be a big problem.  I would like to be able 
> to 
> >>erect an 80 meter vertical, which ideally would be around 60' 
> high. Those 
> >>of you who erected 40' antennas,  could you have gone higher 
> without 
> >>serious difficulties? What was the maximum size tubing you used?
> >>Thanks, Jim, w6ivw
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