On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:16:34 -0500, Jerseyj
wrote:

Hi all,
Seems like there is a bewildering choice in vertical antennas. My "dream
antenna" would be:

Not higher than 35 feet
Requires no guying
covers 10-160 including WARC bands
Has a "reasonable" bandwidth in each band with
less than 2:1 SWR (I know this is a tough one to include 160 for)
No radials
Automatically tunes for each band (meaning I don't have to go
to the antenna to do something to change from 10 meters to working
on 40 Meters)

There seems to be a large number of choices, none of which does quite
all of that (maybe I missed some, suggestions are welcome). Seems like I
have at least some good choices going 10-80 but when I include 160 they
go away.

I'm interested in any suggestions or experiences with verticles as noted
above.
'
Jerry

The feature set you're looking for probably doesn't exist. Try
http://www.cebik.com/radio.html for all kinds of homebrew ideas,
vertical, horizonal and other planes, too...

bob
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