There are lots of manufactures who imitate the "Ham Stick" design, I guess
there are some designs that have the coil protected in such a way as to
prevent you from feeling it.  The genuine "Ham Stick" design wraps the coil
on the outside of the fiberglass mast and the whole mast is wrapped in
shrink tubing so that you can feel the coil.  The 10 and 6 meter ham sticks
don't really have a coil because they don't need one, but you can still
feel the wire going from top to bottom.  You should be ok if you don't
slide the stinger into the mast more than 4 inches.

73, Ken -N5SWR
   

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Frederick
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: ham stick coils


My ham sticks don't have any
wire that is detectable except for the stinger at the very top but that 
isn't a coil.

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Mark
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