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Old August 13th 09, 03:59 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
JIMMIE JIMMIE is offline
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Default Home Depot antenna

On Aug 12, 7:54*pm, K7ITM wrote:
On Aug 9, 5:17*pm, JIMMIE wrote:

Ive been doing some house painting *this week so I bought an extension
handle at Home Depot. Its a colapsable aluminum handle that extends to
18 ft. It was on sale for $39.95. I dont think I could have bought the
tubing that cheap. I only saw a couple of the metal poles left all the
others were fiberglass.


Jimmie


Another option at a similar price (and less when it's on sale) is
Harbor Freight's 3-section telescoping flagpole. *It's three aluminum
sections, 16 feet (1/4 wave on 20 meters) when extended. *Their stock
number is 92901-8VGA.

Cheers,
Tom


Looks like the sections fit together better than what I found too. I
was thinking of building a 5/8ths for 10M. This would certainly get me
almost there.

Jimmie