SparkySKO wrote:
Hello hello.

Finally I post about something other than my mobile rig! Hurray

I got me a SSB boat anchor base, and I've bought 100ft of RG6 coax to
make an antenna. I have a tree in my backyard that's about 80 feet or
so tall (Some type of pine or cedar). I'm thinking of making a coax
dipole, or a wire dipole and throwing this thing as far up the tree as
I can, mounted vertically. I'm on a hill, and facing the direction I
want to go, there's no obstructions from the tree (except behind the
tree, where my house is about 30 feet).

I couldn't really find too much information on tree mounted dipoles. Is
this a bad idea? I was a little concerned about ground, but I figure
that a ground rod would negatively impact the dipole action (We only
get lightning at most once a year in oregon for an hour, so lightning
isn't much of a concern, however I guess in a bad storm I can
disconnect from my radio and throw all the wire outside? heh.

I'm guessing the tree will negatively impact performance? My other
option is to possible put an antenna on top of a hornet infested garage
which also has clear line of sight down the hill, however the garage is
at a lower elevation than the house and the tree, and I'd only be able
to mount a 1/4 wavelength antenna on this.

Spark,
Be carefull of marqueer. He is an admitted sodomite.
Sodomites are wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly (Gen.
13:13), are violent and doom nations (Gen. 19:1-25; Jgs. 19), are
abominable to God (Lev. 18:22), are worthy of death for their vile,
depraved, unnatural sex practices (Lev. 20:13; Rom. 1:32), are called
dogs because they are filthy, impudent and libidinous (Deut. 23:17,18;
Mat. 7:6; Phil. 3:2), produce by their very presence in society a kind
of mass intoxication from their wine made from grapes of gall from the
vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah which poisons society's mores
with the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps (Deut.
32:32,33), declare their sin and shame on their countenance (Isa. 3:9),
are shameless and unable to blush (Jer. 6:15), are workers of iniquity
and hated by God (Psa. 5:5), are liars and murderers (Jn. 8:44), are
filthy and lawless (2 Pet. 2:7,8), are natural brute beasts (2 Pet.
2:12), are dogs eating their own vomit and sows wallowing in their own
feces (2 Pet. 2:22), will proliferate at the end of the world bringing
final judgment on mankind (Lk. 17:28-30), have been finally given up by
God to uncleanness dishonoring their own bodies among themselves, to
vile affections, and to a reprobate mind such that they cannot think
straight about anything (Rom. 1:23-28), have wholly given themselves
over to fornication and gone after strange flesh (Jude 7), must be
pulled as faggots from the fire (Jude 23), and have no hope of Heaven
unless they repent (Rev. 22:15), which they can't do in their prideful
state (Jer. 6:15). They need to hear this truth if they are to have any
hope of penitence, faith in Jesus Christ and salvation (I Timothy
4:2-4).