Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
I'm wondering if you could get away with a single top loaded (coil) wire inside the flagpole. Possible have another wire drop from the top to about 1/4th to 1/3rd of the way down.

Then just for fun, a Slinky™ antenna inside the flagpole. Attach a wire to the end with a motor to pull and retract the Slinky™.
Probably, if it was narrow enough. I'm a firm adherent to the KISS principle, though, and I'm thinking that the less futzing I have to do, the better overall.

Physically tying some wires together isn't big deal. But when we start talking about coils or traps, now we're ratcheting up the complexity.

If this was a pure research project, I would give it a try. But this IS going to be a "real" flagpole, and once it's up, I'm hoping to leave it alone.

Again, we'll see. I'm at least a month away from putting it up, I have a lot of deck work to do first. But, that's why I'm enquiring now, so that when the time comes, I have everything ready (he says confidentally).