On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:29:25 -0700 (PDT), Tom Horne
wrote:

please keep the fog index down to the degree you are able

Hi Tom,

After looking at the mile long URL to one of your offerings - I would
like to see the fog lift too.

Why don't you simply tell us what performance you want to achieve from
an antenna?

A simple quarterwave antenna built on a SO-239 connector with four
drooping radials is squat simple, cheap, and can be built and trimmed
to near perfect match in half an hour or less. You want multiband?
Make two vertical, slightly skewed elements (each cut for the suited
band) joined at the feedpoint. You want more gain? How much more?
Build two or (n-times) more and spend your effort in learning to
construct feedline systems to additively join them.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC