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I used two of the 24 ft. Goture 720 GOLDLITE, Black rods for the “V” supports of my homebrew Portable 20M Delta Loop Antenna. I used only 11 of the rod sections making each of the rods telescope to 20’-6” long.SWR is very good on both the 20M Band and the low end of the 10M Band. I tested this antenna only on 20M. Using my 100W HF radio in my shed with a battery, I made 39 SSB contacts one afternoon (58/59 Signal Reports from CO., MO. [20W Station], IL., AL., LA., CA., Manitoba CAN., PA. Mobile, WI., TN., SC., North FL., NM., IN., MD., OH., KY., VA, El Paso, TX., FL., Ontario CAN., MN, [3W QRP Station], IA., Vermont [mobile] and NY.).While this antenna is designed to be resonant on 20M (14.2 MHz with 1.52:1 SWR), the SWR is even better on the low end of the 10M Band (1.23:1 at 28.2 MHz). I’ve only tested it on 20M so far but this should be an easily portable HF antenna for POTA excursions. It worked superbly well on 20M and actually should work even better at the low end of the 10M Band without a Tuner.The feed point Balun is my homebrew 4:1 Transformer/Choke Balun. The two FT-140-43 toroids (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0178IABXW/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) are in an 83mm x 53mm x 33mm Junction Box (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JJ2MPT8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1). They are bifilar wound as two 1:1 Choke Baluns connected together to make a 4:1 Transformer/Choke Balun – (i.e., a smaller version of the M0PZT design). The antenna wire is ~65.8’ of POLYS-22. For testing I simply used Electrical Tape to attach the wire to the outside edges of the carbon fiber fishing rods and a small Zip Tie (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01018DB2E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) at each of the two rod tips.1st Photo is the two Goture 720 telescoping fishing rods in their cases, the boom assembly (all glued) from left to right is 1” PVC 45° Elbow-1” x 6” PVC-1” PVC Tee- 1” x 6” PVC-1” PVC 45° Elbow and my homebrew 4:1 Balun. When assembled for operation, the two 1” x 8” PVC pieces are stuck into the open ends of the 1” PVC Elbows and the 8” pipes hold the large ends of the fishing rods. I used a 1” x 5’ piece of 1” PVC as the mast putting the bottom part of the “V” at about 5’ and the top part of the “V’ at about 25’.The 2nd Photo is the antenna as it was set up for testing (a 1” x 5’ PVC pipe “mast” was duct taped to a T-Post). The extra wire seen below the tips of the fishing rods in that photo is part of my homebrew 585’ Loop Skywire antenna in the background.The 3rd photo is my Antenna Analyzer displaying the antenna’s SWR Chart for the 20M Band.The 4th photo is the Antenna Analyzer displaying the antenna’s SWR Chart for most of the Ham Bands (note that the antenna’s SWR Minimum is at 1.23:1 SWR at 28.2 MHz on the 10M Band).These are great rods for supporting Amateur Radio antennas.