SotaBeams Carbon 6 Mast | Very Trail Friendly

A look at a very capable telescopic mast for light weight wire antennas.

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[darylw-m]

Thanks for the video Mike. I liked the close-up view of the Carbon-6 and your simple tree support.

[iandstanley]

This is a great mast. They also sell a “Mini Pole Stake Kit” - just put the stake in the ground and place the pole over. Fantastic

[chrisb]

I have this set up from SOTABeams in the UK. Fantastic bit of kit. Works well with the Wonderwand Widebander tuner, which gives you a great set up taking up a tiny amount of space and weight!

[wildcatcomms]

Great review. Thanks for making high quality and entertaining videos!

[ChamaconGonzalez]

Thanks for your video, I learned a lot for my future POTA activation.

[RadioAntics]

great coincidence. I was literally just about to buy this mast. thanks a lot for the review! I feel good about buying this

[expert]

“So I’m just gonna put it in this tree…” 😂. Did not see that coming. Classic K8MRD. Awesome. I just bought a 29’ carbon mast from PackTenna, so maybe I’ll try the tree trick.

[hamradiobasics]

Mike just came across this video. Well done ! I'm a huge fan of EFHW antennas that this seems perfect for it. As soon as they are back in stock I'm going to get one.

[MikeNMAK]

Added to my DXE wishlist. I think this would be great for travel too, especially when flying.

[KYVY]

Mike thank you for this video. I have been very interested into a good pole at a good price to get my EFHW wire into the air and this is the kind of thing I been looking for. Appreciate it!

[alanbrockmeier]

Really great info on a lightweight mast! Would be wonderful when RVing. Thanks NM5SP Alan

[Oscaro]

Hi Mike, great video. What’s the brand of the carabiner?, would love to buy the same.

[WMMG]

Ordered! It’ll take a bit to ship, but just what I need! Been looking at it for a while now, but your video depleted my bank account a little further, lol…

[stevewheatstone]

I have the carbon 6 and sotabeams wire. Absolutely love them, I use the sotabeams ground spike and top insulators. If you want something thicker for a dipole they have the tactical mini. Also they do have a carbon 10 (at least on the UK website) but it a little longer at 67cm. 73

[KJRZOnTheAir]

Awesome masts!!! I’ve been looking around for one.

[njw]

Well done, Madd Mike! Do more. Keep chaperoning Jason (HR 2.0) and Frank. A big job, but necessary! Grin.

[JustMe-dvix]

I use a small diameter piece of para cord between mast and the end fed antenna wire, and the wire I use is 24 GA flexweave, very light and strong while being very flexable. I might mention I run QRP/CW so I do not need a heaver wire, so take that into account.
You may ask why the short piece of para cord? I use it as an insulator to give space between the carbon mast and antenna to avoid interference from the carbon mast. I may be going over kill but it does effect the SWR when the antenna is to close the the carbon fiber mast.
As always Mike you produce an informative well done video. Thank you.

[softstart]

I just received my 10 m sotaBeams mast and cant wait to try it out. The first top section looks very flimsy so I will be careful when erecting same.

[WHJBill]

Just a little update you might be interested in. Like you, I wished they made a 10M version of the Carbon-6, and on another channel they said that they did in the UK, so I contacted Martin at SOTABeam and he said "We have no immediate plans for a 10m version, sorry!". MAYBE if enough people email them asking they might reconsider, who knows.

[Adorn]

I ordered my Carbon mast ( SotaBeams tac-7000hds)
from Dxengineering back in early June. It's back ordered November 1. You are very lucky you have a carbon mast.