[Milsurplus] mast poles

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

These are poles for camouflage netting. They do make nice poles for 
temporary dipoles. I have had some up for about three years and they 
are showing fiberglass threads. Probably need to recoat them.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

  At 10:35 AM 5/27/2008, Ray Fantini wrote:
>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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