Another antenna to consider for very tight spaces, Kevin, would be a corner fed broadband loop. I've had amazing success with these aimed to Alaska, and Asia, especially. All you need is some height (ie tall trees). Mine (I have 4), are located in my urban backyard. The N/S ones are about 30' high x 70' wide, whereas the E/W are a only about 40' high x 30' wide. They've proven to be exceptionally directional, and excellent S/N ratios as has been verified by Nick Hall-Patch using his DX radar setup for a week. I've had simply incredible TP (and some TA) activity with this system this season, outperforming my excellent K9AY and ALA 100 antennae, my favourites from last season. Some representative audio clips (showing the excellent directionality of these simple to construct corner-fed loops) are located in the downloads area of Colin Newell's www.dxer.ca website. Instructions on constructing these arrays can be found at Bruce Conti's website. Overall, this antenna is extremely forgiving, both in dimensions and the type of matching transformer used......Walt.
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