I'm new here so be gentle! Planning my first excursion onto 160m having now
been licensed 31 years (as G8OQV for the first 20 years!)
I have an opportunity to acquire an ex-military pneumatic mast which pumps up
to 21m high. I am thinking about how to deploy it on 160. I am lucky in that
I have the space to erect a vertical with radials although this is not without
its challenges as I have an 11kV power line across the middle of my 4 acre
paddock. Anyway, I am wondering if anyone has tried feeding a mast like this?
I have a feeling that the individual mast sections may be electrically isolated
from each other but I am not sure and am wondering if it might be better to use
the mast (and probably up to another 10m of stub mast on top of it) to support
a wire and either use that as a straight vertical or as the vertical part of an
inverted L rather than to actually try feeding the mast itself.
Anyone got experience or an opinion? Both would be appreciated.
73
Denis MW0CBC.
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