[MRCA] IN-106A antenna base for the SCR-284 - What the heck?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

What Mark is referring to is that the rubber surrounding the spring on the 
AB-15 seems to have gotten much stiffer  than it was 25-30 years ago when 
they were nearly new.  I recounted here or somewhere my experience back in the 
late 1980s of having a standard 5-section antenna that I tried to install 
in an AB-15 literally fall over and hit me on the head as I went back down 
the ladder after trying to put one up on the corner of my garage.  After some 
discussion and trying to flex several AB-15's that I have, that probably 
wouldn't happen today.  At least not immediately.  My guess is that today it 
might take it several weeks or months to fall over.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 06/23/2017 09:33:12 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mrca at mailman.qth.net writes: 
> I have known some who have used the AB-15 antenna base for the 15 ft 
> vehicle antenna, but there is a question about the strength of the spring in 
> this antenna base,
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