Mark, I had used your suggestion as far as running the tube down into the back of the boat below the vertical stabilizer but used a PVC water faucet supply tube from one of the box stores. I just cut the length I needed to wrap the copper tape around and epoxied it in place. Worked great and holds the tape in place around it.
Neal Hornung lt1corvette at earthlink.net >Jon Kimmel wrote: > > >Mark...I feel like an idiot...please explain the arrow shaft. Hollow >fiberglass? Is the tape helical? > >I "rolled" it around a small diameter dowel to get it started, and then >slid it down the shaft longways (see enclosed photo), before soldering >to the coax. Arrow shaft is something Wicks used to sell, 0.33" outside >diameter, 0.0225" wall, made of fiberglass. I assume it's the stuff >arrows are made from, but I used it for conduit (matches the mahogany >interior nicely) for cables and wires, as well as the antenna, and even >as a very lightweight "fuel level stick" that I marked in gallons, to >carry with me in the plane. > > I don't see it on the Wicks website now, but I'm sure it still exists >somewhere. Carbon fiber seems the latest rage in arrow shafts, but >obviously that's not the preferable shaft material for an antenna. >Several large soda straws taped together would work, but the fiberglass >shaft is more elegant. It comes in 3' lengths, as I recall. Let me >know when you find a source...I need to order some more! Thin wall >aluminum tubing would work OK as well...maybe less trouble too. > >See enclosed image below... > >-- > >Mark Langford >ML at N56ML.com >http://www.n56ml.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change >options
