Ed, FWIW, I'm using what used to be an INV-L. I laid out a radial bed as well as possible, next to a marsh. I am in a hurricane area and with the winds, the trees have fallen over. I originally shot a line over a tall branch with a spud gun I made (see it on my QRZ page, at the bottom), at that time it was an "L".
The branch came down and I used another branch, albeit farther away. With attrition, I am now using a tree maybe 30' away from straight up. Doing it the way I did allows me to have a radial bed away from the trunk of a tree. I can't move the bed so the type of antenna had to change. I am using WD-1A field telephone wire for my antennas, with its SS solid core it is incredibly strong and it is so thin it is very hard to see. It's not nearly as good of an antenna as many here use but it is quite good, even as a sloper. I was able to work 9X0T on 160 tonight and could barely hear him with the QRN & RFI but he heard me. Point being that a sloper works very well on 160, you don't "have to have" an INV-L. Whatever you go with, I wouldn't run the antenna next to the trunk. I would keep it some distance to the trunk and as long as you have enough length for radials & antenna & I'd use some method of getting a stealthy wire like WD-1A up over & into the tree-top and down to the radial plate. 73, Gary KA1J > Has anybody snaked a wire up a tall tree trunk to make an Inv L? > > Any interaction? Success?? Has to be stealthy because the tree os > my neighbor's :-) > > Thanks, > Ed NI6S > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband