"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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After a nasty wind storm in January, I a tree had destroyed most of my
antenna farm, which I haven't repaired. Rebuild antennas now added to
the things to do list.


--
Jeff

Luckily,in SoCal we don't contend with that very often -- Santa Ana winds in
the canyons being the occasional exception. I feel for you.

Meanwhile, just hang up any old thing and agitate some 'trons. A 20m dipole
at 15 feet (one end tied off to my chimney and the other end to a branch in
my neighbor's macadamia nut tree) is all I have or apparently need. Yes, 1
KW into a SteppIR on a 50 foot tower is better, but at a cost of several
thousand dollars per S-unit.

Really, it's all good. Maybe you heard my long-ago story about my 20m
first-ever QSO with Hawaii. I got a 5-9 but the antenna was primitive: an
existing 10m vertical dipole, with one end clipped to an extension ladder
laying on the ground. True.

"Sal"
(KD6VKW)