Gary, Though our conditions are different, I also have a top height of somewhere around 50-60'. I don't know exactly, I run a sloper over the top of the tallest tree I can find from my radial plate. I'm at the edge of a marsh and every hurricane takes down trees and I need to get them up over what is left. The only tuner I have is in the k3 and I pretty much use that only to make the radio happy with the input of the amplifier. Half my radials are on the marsh and the other 1/2 are in the woods.
Unlike your situation, I have a lot of excessively long radials about 130' each. I also have a 350' run of coax to the remote switchbox. I have the 129' long 160M sloper, an 80M Inv-L, 40M vert wire, 30M Vert wire and a butternut in the middle of the radial plate that I use for 20 only. Right before the radial plate is the distal end of an Ameritron RC5-8V coax switch. I don't need any tuner to have a good match on all of the HF bands with this: 160M = Sloper 80M = 80M vert 40M = 40M vert 30M = 30M vert 20M - Butternut 17M = 80M vert 15M = 40M vert 12M = 80M vert & 160 Sloper 10M = 160M Sloper You've gotten some great advice on specifically what to do from others, I am including this less specific info to try to demonstrate how it's worth experimenting with the info you've been given and you will surely find something that works well with your 50' height limit. 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband