the Tram antennas are made like the ringo ranger, the one I have anyway, has 
a coil in a plastic case, but the antenna is actually pretty thick aluminum. 
I usually much prefer diamond antennas, but I got the tram because it was 
cheap. Due to some stuff I'm doing over here, like upgrading my echolink 
link, I'm going to have take a ham duel bander and use that in place of the 
TRAM with a duplexer and retune it a little but I can do that easy enough. 
Anyway, the Tram antenna is really a nice one. I'll keep it for down the 
road.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: looking for a base antenna.


> Are these antennas you described fiberglass or the typical plastic with
> coax inside?  I had a ringo ranger dual band, and it was aluminum.  I
> generally like diamond and commit.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>