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September 20th 03, 08:49 PM

In article ,
says...
With the downturn in the solar cycle and worse days ahead, I'm faced
with operating on the lower hf bands. 20M has gotten to be very hit
or miss wrt propagation and it seems that more and more dx is
happening on 40 (with some on 30). I have a 40M dipole up about 30 ft
or so, but that really doesn't cut it.

I know that this is like a discussion about "what's the best color",
but what antenna systems will work well on 40M, maybe even 80M, that I
could mount either on the ground or up no higher than 30 ft? I need
to at least get some general direction on this from an experiential
data set rather than starting with the ads in QST or CQ.

I'd suggest the same solution I'm using: a "shorty" G5RV antenna. It
supports 40m up through 10m. The full-size G5RV is 80m thru 10m, and
there is also a version that goes 160m up thru 10m.

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Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
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