Keith, Actually, the Butternut does cover all the WARC bands. On 17 meters tuning it is a bit touchy, but on 10 MHz and 24 MHz it is very well behaved and gets out great. Using a tuner I even get a match on 5 MHz. I have confirmed around 309 countries on my Butternut. And I live on a tiny city lot. For the serious student of vertical antennas I would highly recommend "The Vertical Antenna Handbook" by Capt. Paul H. Lee, N6PL (SK). Published by CQ, my copy doesn't have an ISBN number, but the Library of Congress card number is 74-83411.
Regards, Joe N9JR ----- Original Message ---- From: "Darwin, Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:56:08 AM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] What Vertical Antenna Do I Need? Hey Fred, [SNIP} Butternut is a tried & true antenna. Hustler 4BTV or 5BTV is very inexpensive and works just fine, thank you. Both of these require radials & neither covers all the WARC bands. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
