On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:57:41 -0400, "G. Doughty"
wrote:

Is there such an animal? I am going to use this rig totally portable
(beach, backyard, woods, open field) and would like to make or purchase a
tuned vertical for thirty. I will be using it with an oak hills portable
cw rig. What do you think?


A vertical wire about 23' to 24' high will give you a 1/4 wave
vertical antenna for 30 meters. Add several radial wires of the same
length to spead on the ground, and you should be good to go. Feed with
coax.

The vertical wire might have a rope and a small weight on the free
end, to hang the wire from any handy limb.

There's a handy vertical antenna calculator at
http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennagpcalc.html

Bob
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