Having said what I did about carbon fiber, some folks make the antennas themselves out of carbon tubing. If you can get the right stuff that will allow a solidly conductive connection to the tube (aluminum spacer inside with a screw and terminal through the bottom, perhaps), that'd probably work, but I haven't tried it. There are lots of links on the web where folks have done something similar. It'd be worth a try, and would be even lighter and stronger than my setup.
Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
