Carbon Fiber Mast for hf radio antenna. Good or bad? Test results with the Poor Man's POTA PERformer

Testing to see if a carbon fiber mast interferes with the resonance of the Poor Man's POTA PERformer multiband 20-6m antenna.
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*Reference Links*

Michael KB9VBR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqw3ultuPQg
Greg KJ6ER - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwSbXXeovjJdT8ijpOi-9FYR--nNsxgD/view

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*Chapters*

00:00 Intro
00:58 Setup Poor Man's POTA PERformer
06:23 Antenna Overview
06:42 Mast 20m Test
07:27 Mast 17m Test
07:52 Mast 15m Test
08:59 Mast 12m Test
09:34 Mast 10m Test
10:13 Mast 6m Test
11:02 Reconfigure for Tree Limb
13:45 Tree 6m Test
14:41 Tree 10m Test
15:17 Tree 12m Test
15:33 Tree 15m Test
16:02 Tree 17m Test
16:25 Tree 20m Test
16:38 Summary
17:15 Outtro

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