Quote Originally Posted by w0aew View Post
I've used those 4-foot long, snap-together fiberglass poles to put up a 36-foot-tall support, with a 34-foot long wire taped to the outside of one side of the pole and about a 17-foot wire on the other side. I used around 10 radials of varying random lengths between 10 and 40 feet. I tack-soldered the coax to the ends of the wires and snipped off bits (and re-soldering) the vertical wires until the SWR was around 1:1 in the CW portions of 40 and 20 meters. The whole thing was bungee-corded to a sapling with a few guy wires.

A wind storm finally tore up the fiberglass, and it all came down. But it did work great for a couple years.
A year and a half ago I picked up some of the aluminum poles that match those fiberglass ones (the mil surplus stuff). The original idea was to use the fiberglass piece within the concrete as a base, and use the rest as the actual flag pole vertical. The boss wasn't too thrilled with the esthetics, and I really didn't want to strip the old Army green paint off of the aluminum...

Still have them, plus a could of rings that can be inserted within the system for guy wires. Not as high as the tree has the "L", but I'm thinking that in a pinch, it could be pressed into service as a temporary vertical.

I may just take the whole thing with me to Field Day and see what we can do. Or not.