I said it was pointless to debate this, but I'm going to debate AGAINST myself. An analogy that makes carbon fiber less than attractive as something to wrap an antenna around is this: If you had a 3' aluminum tube from an old FM antenna and put a layer of shrink tubing around it to insulate, and then stuck the 21.3" copper tape to it for one leg of the dipole, you'd have a reflector that's longer than the element, and that would be Glenn's "extraneous loss". You'd have to cut the aluminum antenna (or carbon fiber shaft as the case may be) to the same length as the copper tape, and even then there MIGHT be problems, so I'm back to what's been mentioned several times already (including me), just use something else to stick your copper tape to and get in the air that much quicker...
Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
