Telescopic Masts - SOTAPOLES (7m and 10m)

SOTA poles, I now have 4 of them! Highly recommended.

Quick and easy to erect and to pack up these poles have proved to be extremely handy and very sturdy under some quite demanding conditions - though we did feel it best to avoid stress testing them when winds recently reached more than 65 mph. Would however recommend allowing for greater high than actually needed to avoid unnecessarily straining the ends and being conscious about the load one is expecting the pole to carry though we have found they will easily take a reasonable weight of antenna.

Excellent product - comes in sturdy plastic case and can be erected in around two minutes. Sturdy and flexible. Don't forget bungie-cables to tie it if you're using it in the field. Must also mention excellent service from SOTABEAMS.

I use my 10 metre pole to support an inverted V dipole for 40 metres. The pole is strong enough to support a mast head trifilar balun transformer and coax. Because of the increasing levels, now very high, of background noise where I live I decided to try portable operation away from noise sources. My first application of this set-up was in Diggle on the canal footpath during the British Waterways On The Air weekend. I used two roof rack bungees to fix my 10 metre pole to a canal footpath bench seat. Within minutes I had the antenna setup and worked Denmark and Italy - notably with very low background noise. The versatile top antenna insulators from Sotabeams helped me fix the trifilar balun transformer to the mast head and as insulators at the wire ends.

I used my 10 metre pole for a horizontal dipole for the 20 metre band. Living in a complex I wired up the extended pole and placed it out of my upstairs window into a large tree with the centre of the pole resting on a tree branch and the remainder being in free space in the overhanging tree - which goes over the canal. I was thus able to erect a stealth antenna, high up (3 stories) which no could object to. Good reception reports from as far away as Moscow. One tip to learn is that if the furthest section falls into the holder as did mine, it is possible to fix it by removing the end cap and pull the displaced section out and then push it back onto the extended pole again.

I was a 'little' apprehensive when I unpacked this..I mean...come ON...THIS is going to be SEVEN meters high? Yep! its is! very very impressed, its easy to set up, and just as easy to take down, and packs away very neatly. Highly recommended.

But strong. Make sure it's adequately guyed and with either the Velcro straps or the metal car stand you have a perfect easy to erect portable system. First time round was a bit fiddly when I used the Sotabeams 3 band dipole and the car stand. Due to a restricted space I couldn't lay out the antenna and the wires kept twisting around each other as I raised the pole but having learnt from first time mistakes everything has gone swimmingly since. You may need some effort to release the bottom cap on the pole but it does come off! Great piece of kit! I bought the ten MTR version and it is more than adequate!

Very pleased with this pole, does what it is supposed to do , excellent.

I have field tested this product and find it great value for money it handles the wind very well and is light too good work

Excellent service with email updates. Good quality pole ideal for me in a sheltered housing complex so no permanent antennas. Quick to set up on a parasol base with a sloping end fed. Found a quick way of attaching wire near to top of pole with a 15a terminal block using the centre hole of a 2 way block.