Subject: Re: [Antennas] Telescoping Aluminum Tubing

Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:41:05 -0600

your welcome, you have a good, fairly priced product.
van

At 10:34 PM 1/6/02 -0800, you wrote:
>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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