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Amateur Radio Antenna Tubing
Build an antenna that’ll last with rigid tubing from DX Engineering! Our aluminum tubing is made from your choice of 6063-T832 drawn aluminum or 6061-T8 heavy-wall drawn...
Build an antenna that’ll last with rigid tubing from DX Engineering! Our aluminum tubing is made from your choice of 6063-T832 drawn aluminum or 6061-T8 heavy-wall drawn aluminum—both highly resistant to corrosion and stress cracking. We also offer high-quality fiberglass tubing to provide a lightweight alternative for your antenna projects. Our aluminum and fiberglass tubing is available in multiple lengths and diameters, so you can create telescoping antenna elements, support masts, and booms. We even offer tubing with one pre-slit end so you can secure multiple tubes with band clamps—no drilling required! Why fumble...
Build an antenna that’ll last with rigid tubing from DX Engineering! Our aluminum tubing is made from your choice of 6063-T832 drawn aluminum or 6061-T8 heavy-wall drawn aluminum—both highly resistant to corrosion and stress cracking. We also offer high-quality fiberglass tubing to provide a lightweight alternative for your antenna projects. Our aluminum and fiberglass tubing is available in multiple lengths and diameters, so you can create telescoping antenna elements, support masts, and booms. We even offer tubing with one pre-slit end so you can secure multiple tubes with band clamps—no drilling required! Why fumble around with inferior tubing? Shop the highest-quality rigid tubing at DX Engineering now!
DX Engineering Aluminum Tubing
DX Engineering High-Strength Aluminum Tubes are ideal for your antenna building projects. It is made available in sizes that fit into and over the next, with close tolerances specifically designed for strength when joined and overlapping only by a few to several inches, to build Yagi, Moxon or vertical antenna elements. NOTE: This tubing is NOT intended for each size to telescope completely into the full length of the next; it cannot be used for telescopic mast building. DX Engineering aluminum tubing is manufactured to very close tolerances. This provides the greatest amount of surface contact between nesting tubes for mechanical and electrical stability. Due to the close tolerance, any burrs, dirt, grit or other foreign material, as well as dents, dings and unseen bending or crushing suffered during shipment will cause binding that prevents this aluminum tubing from fully nesting. 6063-T832 seamless drawn aluminum tubing is available in 3, 6 and 12 ft. lengths. 6063-T832 tubing provides good resistance to general corrosion, including stress corrosion cracking, and an excellent surface appearance. Use a series of 3 ft. lengths to build an element that tapers more quickly for lower wind-resistance applications. Use a series of 6 ft. lengths to make an element that tapers more slowly for greater strength and bandwidth. The 12 ft. lengths are great for HF Yagi construction. Most sizes (except 12 ft.) are available slit on one end for use with DX Engineering stainless steel element clamps. If un-slit ends are required for your applications, merely insert the slit end into the next larger size in the stack and use your own attachment method. 6063-T832 tubing features a 0.058 in. wall thickness and is available in 1/8 in. increments from 3/8 in. to 2-1/8 in. O.D. 3003-H14 drawn aluminum tubing features a 0.035 inch wall thickness and a 1/4 inch outside diameter. Each piece is supplied with non slit ends and is available in both 3 foot and 6 foot lengths, making them ideal for your antenna building projects. If your setup requires maximum strength at very long assembly lengths, then choose DX Engineering 6061-T8 tubing. This heavy-duty version features a 0.120 in. wall thickness and is available in 1/4 in. increments from 1-1/2 in. to 3 in. O.D. Packaged shipments of 6 ft. tubing have oversize shipping fees, regardless of the number of 6 ft. pieces. Therefore, order more 6 ft. pieces to spread oversize fees over more tubing for a more cost effective shipment. Tubing that is 12 ft. long MUST be shipped by truck freight. If you need many pieces of the same size in a 12 ft. tube length, then buying DX Engineering High-Strength Aluminum Tubing Bundles (elsewhere in our catalog) maximizes the economy of scale for your shipping costs. NOTE: Whenever the DX Engineering "Documentation" tab is available, please look at the associated files for additional product information. Order DX Engineering High-Strength Aluminum Tubing here.
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DX Engineering Fiberglass Tubing
DX Engineering Fiberglass Tubing is ideal for building your own antenna supports, such as quad spreaders, insulated UHF stacking frames, a vertical wire, or even temporary push-up masts using the larger diameter tubing. DX Engineering Fiberglass Tubing features a soft gray color that is uniform from piece to piece to make an eye-pleasing assembly and is finished to be highly UV resistant. Optional slit ends are ideal for clamping without drilling, because drilling weakens the tubing. Don't forget DX Engineering stainless steel element clamps for that final, long-lasting assembly or easy-to-assemble portable installation. DX Engineering Guy Rings and Vertical Guying Kits are available to stabilize a vertical assembly. Note: Whenever the DX Engineering "Documentation" tab is available, please look at the associated files for additional product information. These fiberglass tubes are non-telescopic, sold as-is, and non-returnable. Please contact us with questions before purchasing. Uses for our DX Engineering Fiberglass Tubing are only limited by imagination. Kick your thoughts in gear and order your tubing… today!
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DX Engineering Telescoping Aluminum Antenna Tubing Kits
DX Engineering ATK65A Telescoping Aluminum Antenna Tubing Kits employ twelve aluminum tubes that may be used as rope-guyed vertical radiators. Intended for portable or temporary operations, these kits may also be used in a well-guyed permanent vertical antenna installation. They're a good DIY vertical antenna element for Field Day, DXpeditions, RVs, SOTA, camping, and more. Guying is required (three or four levels of rope guys are needed when these kits are extended beyond a 30 ft. height), so guy rings are included. ATK65A kits consist of 11- 6-ft. sections and one 3-ft. section of DX Engineering's rugged 6063-T832 drawn aluminum tubing. The kit also includes all required stainless steel element clamps. The bottom section is the 2.0-in. outside-diameter heavy-wall (0.120 in. thick) that mates up to 2-1/8 in. diameter tubing with an 8 in. overlap, and then back to 2-in. diameter tubing with a 5 in. overlap. Each sections continues the element taper down to 7/8-in. diameter at the top. The overall length of the assembled sections can reach up to 780 inches, or 65 feet. These kits are well suited as vertical radiators for your custom-designed single vertical antenna or in multiples in a two or four element array. They may be set to resonate on any HF band at any length up to 65 feet by simply removing or telescoping the sections and clamping them at the desired length. NOTE: This vertical antenna tubing kit is NOT intended to be used as a support for other antennas. Also keep in mind that vertical elements typically require counterpoise or radial wires emanating from the feedpoint for proper function. Erection of this thin-wall aluminum tubing element is a multi-helper, simultaneous push-up and pull-on guy lines process. See the instructions for details. For additional product information, please look at the files under the "Documentation" tab. Whether you use them as a stack of aluminum for your experimentation or as quarter-wave resonant vertical element, DX Engineering ATK65A Telescoping Aluminum Antenna Tubing Kits provide the most economical path to building your own designs!
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