broken hf whip

Yes I've broken three now, no longer leave the whip on when travelling.
The first two were genuine Barrett whips and the third one was from another WA supplier whose name escapes me at the moment.
All snapped/fatigued just above the bit that screws to the autotune base.

Hi Steve, do you mean the fibreglass whip or the shorter steel one ? That has a habit of breaking just above the little coil if its one of the older ones. Crikey you must have whacked a few servo flouros with it :)
Try this mob for a replacement Codan autotune whips

Try Geoff Angus at Angus Communications in behind the SPC packing shed.

Go all the way up Knight St over the railway line, through the SPC boom gates on Andrew Fairley Ave. Left at the roundabout into Adams Ave. He's at the end on the right hand side.

Tell him Dave the Ambo said g'day. Not even sure if I told him I was moving to Lake Entrance.

Dave

Yep - mine last about 6-12 months.
The last one broke nearer the top than at the base, interestingly whereas the previous ones break off at the screw adaptor.
I've migrated away from the genuine CODAN ones to another tapered one that seems to last longer.
I don't think there are autotune aerials with spring bases. You just have to remember to take it off when in town.

My Barrett has two stainless whips - the heavy duty 1.8m job has a decent spring base and seems bullet proof - but I don't use that one when mobile anyway.
The light duty 1.5m whip has no spring base, so I added one ! .... I was warned by a supplier about the expected whip breakages.....you can buy the chromed brass spring at any radio shop (this metal is taken care of during the auto-tune process). Also I have wrapped the female screw-on base and the bottom 40mm or so of the actual whip in self amalgamating tape - this, plus the spring must be reducing the tendency toward metal fatique at the bottom of the whip, because I'm yet to break one.... I'm happy.