On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:25:56 -0500, "Tarmo Tammaru"
wrote:


"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
t...
Possible dum question alert!

I've been thinking about verticals lately, and am curious about a
vertical for 80 meters.

Specifically, I am wondering about putting a vertical in one of my trees
in the yard. I have *big* trees, 80-90 feet tall, and could put a full

Mike,

I did that on 40 meters. Hung a vertical from the branch of a 90 foot tulip
tree. Since the antenna was short enough, I had elevated radials. My
suggestion is that once you get a rope over a branch, put up both the
vertical and an inverted V. My guess is that most of the time the inverted V
will blow away the vertical.


It depends on a number of things.
The verticals I've had up were better at the longer distances and the
QRM was lower. QRN was higher at times. That's with three different
installations, one of which was a phased array.


Tam/WB2TT


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