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Isolating Gain Master from poles

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I am wondering if there is any advantage to isolating (not just isolating but mkaing the last pole not metal !) a GM from the pole on which it is mounted. I wondered if there would be a case for making the top pole a wooden or fibre glass one ?

Given the antenna is a kind of centre fed 5/8 wave dipole I wonder if metallic mounting poles could negatively influence the balanced nature of the antenna. i.e. the lower radiating element.

(After all you would never mount a centre fed vertical 1/2...

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