: I just got the spring 2011 catalog from Texas Towers, the people
: who supply aluminum tubing to the amateur radio community, and
: also to those who build aluminum-framed kayaks. Tom Yost lists
: them on his list of suppliers. Apparently quite a few people
: have followed up and bought their aluminum tubes. In the intro
: to this edition's tubing list is the paragraph titled Good
: Stuff! It reads:
: " In addition to thousands of amateur antenna builders across
: the USA, our tubing customers include major amateur radio
: antenna manufacturers and dozens of smaller antenna
: manufacturers. Beyond that, our aluminum tubing finds its way
: into an intersting assortment of other commercial and home-built
: applications: telecope trusses, folding kayak frames, furniture
: frames, wind chimes, automotive radiators, and intercoolers, and
: more . . ."

: There it is. They apparently get enough kayak builders ordering
: that it has made an impression.

: PGJ

Well not entirely recognized by them, recently they had a sale on aluminum tubing but it was only for ham operators, the guys wanting to build kayaks with the tubing were turned away and had to pay full price. Had to have a ham station number (or whatever that is) to get the discount.

Bill H.