Onno (VK6FLAB)

A starting point is to check out how the local TV installers do this.

Depending on what you are putting on the top, Spiderbeam make various fibreglass telescopic masts and apparently also aluminium ones.

See: https://shop.spiderbeam.com/en/shop/category/fiberglass-poles-73

Source: I own one of their 12m fibreglass masts.

If the cable is the only thing, you can likely open it up and replace it.

It’s fascinating to see the difference in reaction in the post here, vs. the post it links to where they’re saying exactly the same thing that you and I are saying.

No idea what the difference might be.

I’d be surprised if this installation generated anything useful at all, since shading any part of a single panel essentially disables the whole panel, which in turn, especially in small setups like this, affects the whole array of panels.

Yeah. I can just picture it. Survivalists doing an appendectomy in their barn using a pocket knife and some whisky…

Seriously, if the shit properly hits the fan, there’s no “survival” scenario, it’s extinction and homo-erectus goes the way of the dinosaurs.

Anything less than that means the rich get richer and the poor die.