Since you are supporting a 30 meter vertical, I suspect that you can
support a 17 meter half wave vertical.. A halfwave, bottom fed,
monopole, worked against an elevated counterpoise... Said elevated
counterpoise to be a half wave in length, and tapped at it's
centerpoint... Two or three feet off the ground will work, while head
high would be nice...
A single antenna will give 360 coverage... Two, three, or four of these
with switching to rotate the pattern will give you gain in given
directions, while still allowing 360 coverage...

denny / k8do

Alan Taylor wrote:
Roy, ruling out quad loops and multi element antennas what do we have
available?

Thanks es 73 Alan