[Milsurplus] mast poles

[J Forster]

I asked the same question of a guy at Hoss Traders a while back. He said
both the Al and FG were supports for netting. He also had plus shaped
bases and tops for them. They came in roll-up kits with the poles, tops,
bottoms, and stakes, I think.

Best,
-John

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WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> 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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