Hi

One possible could be ground mounted vertical array.
There are triangle and quad (four "corner" ) constructions.
Triangle gives 6 switchable directions and some gain and FB but
requires radial wires to be effective.

QST Aug -72 had a quite extensive article of 7MHz triangle array.

73 Kari B


Mark Sheffield wrote:
With the downturn in the solar cycle and worse days ahead, I'm faced
with operating on the lower hf bands. 20M has gotten to be very hit
or miss wrt propagation and it seems that more and more dx is
happening on 40 (with some on 30). I have a 40M dipole up about 30 ft
or so, but that really doesn't cut it.

I know that this is like a discussion about "what's the best color",
but what antenna systems will work well on 40M, maybe even 80M, that I
could mount either on the ground or up no higher than 30 ft? I need
to at least get some general direction on this from an experiential
data set rather than starting with the ads in QST or CQ.

Tnx - Mark Sheffield/N0LF

If you have the horizontal room (70 feet, sounds like you might) and
at least 35 feet up, why not a Half Square for 40? Doesn't need
radials, it's an 'upside down' phased vertical array with some gain
and a good TOA. Be aware however, it is somewhat directional. Easy to
make on your own, also cheap and there is a lot of info on the Web.
I have one for 20 meters (very modest with the antennas here) and it
works a lot better than my R5 vertical and full sized G5RV.