MFJ-1910 Telescoping Fiberglass Mast Pole 33 Feet

Had it up for about a month straight and it sustained multiple bouts of 15mph-20mph winds jus fine while swaying at very high angles (as expected). 25+mph winds came through and I decided to leave it up to see how it would stand and with the weight of the coax and jumper box (2oz), it broke at about 32ft under a heavy gust. Not the fault of the product as it's obvious it's not designed for 25+mph winds. Will be ordering two more

It is very light and easy to put up fully extended. However, after swinging back and forth in the wind it came straight down and had to be extended again. I twisted the sections tight but it didn't last more than 2 to 4 days. This happened 3 times. On the forth time I drilled holes through where the sections overlap and put a 18 awg wire through and bent the ends down. So far it is still up after a week. I am pleased with my purchase. I have a 22 gauge wire straight down from the top with a 9:1 unun (matching transformer) at the bottom with coax from that point to the house. It's a good omni antenna.

It has hosted a 130 foot wire as the apex support for more than 1 year now. very sturdy. But perhaps not for concentrated weight such as a balun box. To require a support of this "hideability" to hold a heavy weight is unrealistic, especially at this price point.I ordered another one this week to form a support for one of the wire ends.

I was putting up a multiband wire antenna (Frequency Devices 40-6LPOCFD which weighs less than a pound) on a clear windless day in my yard. I zip tied the LMR-240 feed cable to the mast sections as I deployed them so the weight could be born along the axis of the mast, and had the antenna tied to the top of the mast loosely so it could hang freely. As I got the mast all the way up, it bent over like an ultralight trout pole with a large mouth bass pulling on it! As I tried to stake out my antenna wires mast sections collapsed. This happened several times no matter what I did to secure the mast sections by twisting. On the fourth attempt, the mast collapsed and the top section snapped off near its base. I was not pulling hard on the wires at all. I am really disappointed with this mast's performance.

First, you can not use the full length of the mast. When we kept adding sections it started to slightly bend so removed sections to stop this. Secondly, the first time there was a medium wind the mast bent into a 45 degree angle at the point it was secured to a steel pole for support. When I contacted the seller with photos of the defective mast requesting a refund I received no reply at all. Don't waste your money. This was a total waste of money and time.

Took it out to field day and mounted it to the ladder of my trailer with a couple of hose clamps. Extended it out to hold the end of an end-fed 40m - 10m. First the top (thinner than most fishing rods) snapped off in a light breeze less than an hour later. I tried remounting the antenna lower 3 times with the same result, the final time snapping just above the hose clamps with only 15 feet of the thing left by that point. Oh well, lesson learned I guess.

Mast its very well made, i used to rise my ham radio end fed antennas . For Dipoles antenna, i don't extend the last to sections, because are to thin to support the Balum weight..

Nice mast to use with a piece of wire for a vertical. But the top section is to flimsy to really use for anything. Weaker then an ultra light fishing pole

I use it for an antenna HF. If you know where I can get a new tip, DM me please. 73