Steve Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang
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I have a hillside lot here that is on the smallish side. I once tried a
Hustler vertical up on a 30 foot mast on the rooftop. I used some
slotted PVC pipe to insulate the vertical from the mast. I took rotor
cable, and made 4 radials, one for each of my insulated steel guy wires.
I cut the insulation on the rotor cable and snipped out a section of
wire so that I had reasonably well tuned radial wires for each of the HF
bands from 40 to 10 meters. I did not have enough length for 80 meter
quarter wave radials with this setup, but did make some contacts on 80
with it. I had to use a tuner since I had no way to adjust the vertical
while it was in position. It worked out very well. My first contact
was in the old Yugoslavia on 15 meters with the 5 watts from a Heath
HW-9. It did very well with the National NCX-5 also. Once you lift a
vertical an appreciable portion of a wavelength above even lousy ground,
the radials tend to become a ground plane and shield the antenna from
the lossy ground below. I did worry a lot about lightning, but had no
strikes. You might want to try something like this at your QTH.
73,
Steve WA9JML
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