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Subject: [TowerTalk] non-conductive lightweight mast
From: baycock@HIWAAY.NET (Bill Aycock)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:10:57 -0600


Pete- Too bad we dont live closer-. I have a grove of "Structural" Bamboo,
with many taller than you need.

Bill-W4BSG

At 12:59 PM 1/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I'm looking for material for a 25-foot-tall non-conductive mast to use with
>a K9AY loop.  PVC, even sched 40 and 80, has not proved stiff enough.
>Fiberglass should work but the pricing I've seen for pre-packaged kits
>seems out of line.  anyone got a line on a source for telescoping siuzes of
>fiberglass tubing and rod, such that I could splice 4 6-foot pieces of
>tubing together?
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
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