[Milsurplus] mast poles

[Dave Maples]

They are actually support for camoflage netting, I believe.

Dave WB4FUR

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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Ray Fantini
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:36 AM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] mast poles


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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