It's worth giving the latest Hustler G7 & G6 (the ones with Aluminum, not all fiberglass) Antennas a revised look.
Some of the early G6 & G7 Antennas I have here have fairly thin tube thickness. The latest replacement same model antennas are much better built. s. > AA8K73 GMail <aa8...@...> wrote: > > > G7-144 top-mounted at 60 feet for four years. > > I would watch the wobble when the wind blew and > heard the crackling. I thought the lower phasing > coil had worked loose at the studs. Not so. > > When I brought it down I discovered the four pins > at the both the top and bottom of the lower phasing > coil were missing and the outer tube was providing > very little support. The inner assembly was > holding the top portion on. > > > > W3ML wrote: > > > > > > Thanks everyone for the advice. > > > > When we got the antenna it had been up for 10 years or more at 350 feet. > > > > The fiberglass on the coil section was practically destroyed and the > > joints were very loose. > > > > We cleaned all the corrosion off the metal, re-fiber-glassed the section > > to seal it and used no-ox. > > > > Then when it was re-assembled, I sprayed it with clear polyurethane and > > then screwed the sections together to try and tighten them up besides > > having the hose clamps on them. > > > > It still wobbles and I believe there is something wrong inside the > > fiber-glassed section and that is what is causing some or all the > > trouble with noise on incoming signals. > > >
