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WA6CDE · 03-20-2012, 03:08 PM

I once made a great vertical using a hollow fiberglass flag pole... although I understand that you can get fiberglass painters poles...

To which you then put a small little pully or turn around bead in the top... use a fly fishing reel loaded with flex wire..at the bottom... with the coax connector/w2du homemade choke balun using five Palomar Engineers FSB-1/4 ferrite snap on beads on the coax up by the feedpoint. These act as a "choke balun"..... put the flex wire inside...and tie it to the cord... that extends up the top... then as you need it you can pull it up... making the 33 ft flag pole resonate.. similar to the more expensive stepper vertical that you all mention... as well as no one knows your on the ham radio... if you put your favorite flag on the pole also... only problem is still the ground radials which IS the other half of the antenna...

03-20-2012, 03:08 PM	#12
WA6CDE Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 14	I once made a great vertical using a hollow fiberglass flag pole... although I understand that you can get fiberglass painters poles... To which you then put a small little pully or turn around bead in the top... use a fly fishing reel loaded with flex wire..at the bottom... with the coax connector/w2du homemade choke balun using five Palomar Engineers FSB-1/4 ferrite snap on beads on the coax up by the feedpoint. These act as a "choke balun"..... put the flex wire inside...and tie it to the cord... that extends up the top... then as you need it you can pull it up... making the 33 ft flag pole resonate.. similar to the more expensive stepper vertical that you all mention... as well as no one knows your on the ham radio... if you put your favorite flag on the pole also... only problem is still the ground radials which IS the other half of the antenna...