"Steve (another one)" wrote in
:

Dear all

May I pick-up on something mentioned in response to my earlier
question.

It was suggested that running a wire up a kevlar backstay is a simple
soultion and avoids having to insulate a piece of conventional
rigging. This sounds very sensible to me and plan to try it, it avoids
having to mess with exposed connections to a wire backstay.


Isn't Kevlar made of CARBON fibers? Carbon, being a conductor and
electrical dummy load, used in resistors for converting electrical energy
(i.e. HF signals) into heat.

Larry.