X-GM-THRID: 1198753102542828840 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf X-Gmail-Received: be19dbcc29f2c226a5b4ae6b9aa3623750fcb367 Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.54.127.8 with SMTP id z8cs40502wrc; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.91.20 with SMTP id o20mr889622qbb; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:07:25 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f14si1293822qba.2006.03.24.09.07.24; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1FMphU-0001nS-Ec for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:48 +0000 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1FMphU-0001nI-3A for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:48 +0000 Received: from hestia.herts.ac.uk ([147.197.200.9]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FMrKB-0001QN-Cc for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:48:11 +0000 Received: from [147.197.215.113] (helo=tucana.herts.ac.uk) by hestia.herts.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 1FMph2-0006b7-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:20 +0000 Received: from [147.197.164.230] (helo=RD40002) by tucana.herts.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1FMph1-0002Rz-LS for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:19 +0000 From: "james moritz" To: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:19 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c64f64$d9c666a0$e6a4c593@RD40002> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <02c201c64f22$0dc403b0$0300a8c0@LAPTOP> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-UH-MailScanner: No Virus detected X-UH-MailScanner-Information: X-H-UH-MailScanner: No Virus detected X-UH-MailScanner-From: j.r.moritz@herts.ac.uk X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,AWL=-1.125 Subject: LF: RE: Re: portable DX-pedition antenna? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6653 Dear LF Group, My fishing poles are also black, but proved to be good insulators, with the wire attached directly to the poles without requiring any additional insulation. I think carbon fibre poles would be a lot more expensive than the ones sold via the amateur radio retailers. Cheers, Jim Moritz 73 de M0BMU >>From G3PLX: I have some black coloured poles (from www.sotabeams.co.uk) but they were certainly not carbon fibre, but glass fibre. Maybe the black paint was conducting, I don't know. I wanted them as conducting elements anyway so it was not important. 73 Peter