Here's another, utterly impractical, solution: When my wife and I built our weekend home in the Colorado mountains we chose the site for its natural beauty. Antennas are unnatural. I was content with having only dipoles and Vees, but even they spoiled the view. So, every time we were at the house and I wanted to operate, I would raise them up. When done, I lowered them, leaving the supporting ropes dangling against their trees with a snap-bolt on each rope's end. The dipoles themselves -- including a multi-band for 10-15-20 and, at the time, Vees for 40 and 80 -- were rolled up, the coax feed lines were disconnected from the sockets under the deck of the house, and it was all put away out of sight.
I no longer do that, and haven't in recent years given age and a bad shoulder. But during the first few years I learned how to deploy and store my farm in minutes. Ted, KN1CBR On Sunday, December 19, 2021, 8:04 PM, Rich WC3T <[email protected]> wrote: When we moved to this QTH about 20 years ago my wife (SWMBO) remarked on how the location was perfect for ham radio as we are on top of a smallish hill. ? So. Much. Win. ?Or so I thought.? Years later when I had the temerity to launch an OCF dipole across two trees, the first words out of her mouth were ?What is THAT POS?? ?? Obviously she didn?t have the same mentalImage as I did. ? I quietly filed the tower plans and am now QRP mobile. ? 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T /?DMR:?3142737??Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for ScoutingGrid:?FN20is ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
