[Milsurplus] mast poles

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Ray,

Seems I recall someone asking a similar question on G503 and the answer given 
was that the fiberglass poles are for camoflage netting or something like 
that.

In a message dated 5/27/2008 9:36:08 AM Central Daylight Time, 
rafantini at salisbury.edu writes: 
> I went to the Howard County ham fest last Sunday, nothing like Dayton but a 
> lot closer. Did see an ARC-5 receiver and a rack mount HP-608 for $10 each, 
> along with the same broken PRC-174 that was at Timonium, looks a lot like a 
> PRC-104 and am told that broken is there natural state.
> But the question I have is about mast poles, the same company was at Dayton 
> selling lots of aluminum and fiberglass mast that are OD green. Hams buy 
> these things by the truck load and call them military mast but I have to wonder. 
> Did the US military ever use fiberglass poles? And I thought that all the 
> temporary mast I have seen like the AB-952 and the like were heavier 
> construction. Is there a huge supply of third world substandard mast on the market or is 
> this what the last of the mill spec kits were?
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
> 

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