Denton wrote:
I picked up a used one last sprng, set it up about 3 ft off the ground in
the back yard...and took it back down within a couple of weeks.
Signals were way down compared to my 450 ohm ladder line fed 80 meter
doublet on all bands.

I had the same experience with a 1/4WL 40m vertical. Now I wish
I had run some A/B transmitting tests as well as the A/B
receiving tests which the vertical flunked mainly due to an
extremely high noise level. I'm thinking about putting the
vertical back up as a 1/4WL 30m vertical fed at the base with
an SGC-230 that I already have. Such an antenna should work
pretty well on 40m-10m, at least for transmitting.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp