Elden Fenison wrote:
* Reg Edwards [07/16/2005 05:04 UTC]:
Go vertical or steeply sloping. Better all-round multi-band
performance than lower horizontal long wire, specially DX at the lower
frequencies.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've spent much of the evening reading the
ARRL "Stealth Amateur Radio" book. Interesting stuff. It appears that in
addition to the wire up in the tree, I'll also need some sort of RF
ground. Maybe shooting a very thin wire over the top of my building
would do the trick.

Another thing I'm considering rather than a wire in the tree, is a
Hustler 6-BTV on a short mast.
I'm not clear as to which would be likely
to perform better.

The wire should outperform the 6BTV by a large margin IF you have an
even half-decent counterpoise/grounding system in place like a
wire-over-the-roof plus Reg's plumbing system connections. You'd also
get much more bandwidth with a wire vs. the 6BTV. A random wire can be
used on 30M, a 6BTV cannot be used on 30M, etc.

But one thing... with the Hustler I wouldn't have to
spring for an AH-4 tuner.

You can put up a wire and buy a manual wire tuner like the $110 MFJ
941E plus the cost of the wire. I'll do the tuning manually and save
$150-200 additional cost for any autotuner every time.

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