SPIDERBEAM - 22M Fibreglass Pole (Inc Accessories)

Spiderpole 22m

This is the little brother of the incredible 26m pole. Removing the bottom two segments reduces height by 4m, but makes it a lot lighter and easier to install.

Like all Spiderbeams other poles, the "long john" 22m fibreglass pole is carefully designed to maintain low weight and perfect balance. It can still be installed by "walking up" the pole. As usual, Spiderbeam have tested it thoroughly at the Baltic sea coast where it has weathered all storms without any problems.

The pole starts out very rugged at the bottom. The upper sections are slim and light (1mm wall thickness), preventing the pole from becoming top-heavy and keeping it perfectly balanced.

A special reinforcing winding technique - several layers of fibreglass are wound in alternating direction (criss/cross winding) - provides greatly increased lateral and linear strength.

These poles are perfect for building all kinds of wire antennas, especially 80/160m wire GP or inverted L antennas. They can also easily support temporary lightweight 1 Element Quad or Delta loops for 40-10m, and dipoles for all bands, especially when used with open wire feedli. (Most baluns would be somewhat heavy). 4-6 poles could be used to build lightweight beams for 40 or 80m The best (and cheapest) wire to use for building such wire antennas (verticals, loops, dipoles etc.) is AWG 18 (= 1mm diameter) enameled copper wire or similar.

For example a 20/15/10m 1el quad can be installed at 16m height above ground. The Spiderbeam vertical junction box / radial plate makes building wire verticals very easy.

Specificaton

• High strength professional telescopic fibreglass pole
• Fully extracted length (height):  22m (72ft)
• Transportation length: 2.00m (6ft 6")
• Weight: 13kg (28lbs)
• Bottom diameter: 95mm (3 3/4")
• Top diameter: 4mm (1/6")
• Wall thickness: 1mm - 2mm  (1/25" - 1/12")
• Number of segments: 13
• Pole material: black fibreglass, UV protected, specially reinforced multilayer winding

The pole comes complete with a set of 12 rubber padded stainless steel clamps and 2 guy rings made from strong belts, for guying the mast the 5th segment and above the 9th segment.