VERY unlikely you will set the tree on fire...you would have to be
running several kw at the very least to even begin to start a fire!

Steve



On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:02:10 GMT, jimg wrote:

hi. i'm about to be a new ham. i hv only 1 chance for an antenna for
80m (or 40, even 20). there's a 120' oak tree in the yard with 70'
clear on either side. so i thought a ladder-line center-fed inverted
vee dipole (63' per leg, 14ga teflon insulated stranded) would be my
best bet...so at 100W, even 600W ...am i going to set the tree on
fire? any ideas on how to keep bad things from happening? thank you
very much?

jimg
jimg
Oregon
USA