please help me select a pole for mounting my anemometer

[snowman]

For my mast I went to Radio Shack and bought 2 - 5' sections of antenna mast. They simple push togther and make a very solid mount.
Very sturdy.

[funlv1965]

Thanks for the response snowman, your setup is simple but effective,  what I was looking for was a way to mount the pole to the 4x4 post on my fence using two 5' sections and if I needed to do any work to the anemomemter all I would need to do would be to twist the collar on the pole and retract down the upper half of the pole, the most I figured I would need do is use my small ladder to make any changes to the mast once its fully recessed from 10' to 5' so im seriously looking at this " wonderpole" which is fiberglass which does exactly that, I consider your setup to be a good standard for me since im looking to do the same thing just with a retractable pole.

[aardvark]

and of course my 2 cents":    http://home.mchsi.com/~dsmweather/stationinfo.htm

you can read what and how I set my vp1 up.    relatively cheap and it has held well.

[niko]

If it absolutely has to be retractable then for a cheaper solution check out telescoping aluminum poles for window cleaning, ettore brand is pretty common and well made.

[aardvark]

exactly.    Things can go wrong with the unit and you have to be able to get it down easily and not take out the window, neighbor, yourself etc...