Hal:

I never thought about the aluminum shafts of arrows!!! The expensive
ones are a titanium alloy--if I remember correctly... Make one tough
antenna...

I have been lucky enough to get some titanium rod (or alloyed aluminum)
before--at a scrappers, you sure can tell it when you attack it with a
hacksaw, this was tempered, apparently, and had the properties of spring
steel...

You are right, that anti-corrode stuff (gel/grease whatever that stuff
is) is good to use on aluminum connections... I am in California--away
from the coast--corrosion is not a very great problem here... but still
every 5 years or so you do have to clean connections and redress...

Warmest regards,
John

"Hal Rosser" wrote in message
.. .

In fact, many good aluminum/copper/stainless flats, rods, tubing, etc
can be found for antenna projects... yellow pages should provide
anyone
with a source...

Warmest regards,
John

One should be careful when using aluminum conductors for antennas.
ACSR (Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced)
may be a better choice for tensile strength.
but Aluminum oxide is an insulator. and it forms easily at the
connections.
But I have made some good antennas out of Aluminum Arrows
I even left the fletching (feathers) on for a couple of antennas. :-)