[Milsurplus] mast poles

[Robert Nickels]

Ray Fantini wrote:
> 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?
>   
Evidently they bought both kinds by the truckload, Ray.    There are 
plenty of surplus sellers offering them cheaper than the hamfest 
peddlers, such as:
http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/product/camo-netting-poles--aluminum-4-for-1195-2881.cfm

The original use was to support camo netting, the guy from Maryland  
darn near sold out at the Peoria Hamfest last year but he told me he had 
a warehouse full back in MD.   Why they used both aluminum and 
fiberglass is a mystery to me, but a fiberglass section makes a nice 
base insulator for an aluminum vertical.

73, Bob W9RAN