I was using a KX1 at the beach yesterday, with a Maldol 4-foot whip,
and found myself wishing I had a longer radiator for beach outings. I'd
like a multi-section or telescoping vertical that's 8 to 10' long, 0.5
or smaller in diameter, and most important, weighs just a few ounces.
In a perfect
Wayne
Pickup one of the 20' Black Widow fishing poles, around $20 last time
I looked. I have two, and they are great for general purpose antenna
tinkering.
You can suspend a wire vertical on one, or use it as the center support
for an endfed half wave. There's a whole range of antenna
wayne burdick wrote:
Anyone know of a vertical that meets the above requirements?
Get a 16-foot Black Widow (etc.) fishing pole and take it apart, using
only the topmost sections.
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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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G'day,
How about carbon fibre fishing rod blanks. Ordinary glass fibre would
work with a flex weave conductor threaded up it with about 10-15cm
sticking out of the top so that the sections can be parted and folded into
a bundle.
Could even be used as a fishing pole.
Someone else will have come
It's old stuff but there's the fiberglass crappie fishing poles by South
Bend at Wal-Mart, one 10' another 15'. Lash a wire to it and stick the butt
end into the sand. 10' model telescopes to 46.25 and is 5 oz. 15' model
telescopes to 40.5 and is 8 oz. While these poles will hold up a wire
I was using a KX1 at the beach yesterday, with a Maldol 4-foot whip,
and found myself wishing I had a longer radiator for beach outings.
I'd like a multi-section or telescoping vertical that's 8 to 10' long,
0.5 or smaller in diameter, and most important, weighs just a few
ounces. In a
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