it into my truck and i brought it home and found that the end of one section was bent but that was fine with me. i was thankful to get it and decided that 50 foot was a good goal to achieve anyway.
i would take a piece of steel wool and every now and then take some of the corrosion off of it, and with some aluminum paint, i would paint a section at a time and put it in the basement of my house. it sat there for a couple of years.
one of the amazing parts of this story is that when i got my ham ticket, there were 