I used a Tennadyne in St Croix once, I just did not recall a plastic mast
bracket. I believe it had a square boom so a polypropylene Stauff clamp could
not be used to bolt the boom to an aluminum plate however maybe something
similar can be made for the square shape.
Garolite is pretty tough and expensive. I have used it myself and it worked
well.
With a log periodic hot boom you have to be careful how you run the coax across
the boom but that's a different subject.
John KK9A
-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Cox <aa4nu@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2024 11:56 PM
To: john@kk9a.com; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tennadyne Plastic pieces
Yes, Dave is correct, the boom on the Tennadyne design is "RF hot" as to how
the LPA elements are fed ...
Suspect something like Garolite or similar that W3LPL, K3LR, N4TZ/9, W9RE, and
others use might be a suitable material?
https://www.mcmaster.com/products/garolite/
Hope this helps!
73 Billy, AA4NU
>> On 11/01/2024 3:20 AM GMT john@kk9a.com wrote:
>>
>> The boom to mast bracket is plastic?
>>
>> John KK9A?
>>
>>
>> Dave Arruzza w1ctn wrote:
>>
> Fellow TT'ers...
> I know Tennadyne is still in business.
> I want to change the present boom to mast bracket to a larger one and
> that's > why I am inquiring about the plastic type.
> 73
> Dave
> W1CTN / NC4DA203-906-6209
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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