[Antennas] Fiberglass Poles

Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:24:50 -0500

You might try to find someone that installs and services underground
Gasoline tanks.
The pipe they use around here is a thin-walled fiberglass composite material
that is very
rigid and light for its diameter (about 2 1/2 inches). They come in 20 foot
lengths. The only
identifying labels I have found was a "Resin manufactured by Ciba Geigy".
I got mine from a company that got out of this type of  business for
practically nil.

John Brown - KE4HIE

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Subject: Re: [Antennas] Fiberglass Poles

> http://www.mgs4u.com/fiberg.htm
>
> At 08:00 AM 7/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Can anyone give me the source for ten foot fiberglass poles?
> >
> >I want to use 4 of them for the spreader for the 40 meter Moxon rectangle
> >we used for field day.  We used a 2 inch diameter, 20 ft long poly pipe
> >and it was too heavy.  It worked pretty well even though it was only up
> >25'.  It was resonant at 7030, with a SWR of 1.2:1, fed with RG58 to the
> >ground then RG8 to the rig.  It was designed for 7200, so it needs a bit
> >of trimming.  It had 1 to 2 S units of gain over a vertical, depending on
> >the direction.
> >
> >TNX
> >
> >
> >
> >73, Chas, W1CG
> >
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