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Lostgallifreyan · January 16th 10, 03:21 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

Boris wrote in news:a3022dac-52e4-470e-9865-
:

On Jan 15, 7:08*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:33:31 -0800 (PST), Boris

wrote:
I have this problem - my garden is not too large (about 15 X 7
meters).
I wonder, between the diamond WD 330S - is about 10m, and BB6W - 6.4m.
Or maybe some vertical?
Can you advise something?

Hi Boris,

What do you want to do?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Well, yes.
Of course, I mean work on short-wave, and it would be good to have the
80-meter, which is probably possible with these antennas.

Boris

I just bought a vertical whip mast that comes in nine one-metre tapered
sections. Very light and easy to use. It looks like it will also be easy to
omit upper sections for a shorter and more rigid whip. Listing 290381933076
on eBay shows one. Designed in Italy, made in China, so likely widely
available.

Right now I have scaffolding works going on outside, landlords doing their
ten-yearly maintenance, but I might still get a chance to set this up soon
because it's a very undemanding antenna design. I'm not sure how well it will
stand if I try for permanence but I think it will be fine if it doesn't get a
direct hit, and it's too light to damage much it it does.