Hi Cecil....let us know if you do that. When I redid the back yard lawn, I
installed an extensive buried radial system for such experimentation. I have
all the aluminum tubing left over from the Titian's tuning stubbs to turn my
40 ft vertical dipole into something wth some capacity hats...to get it to
work on 80 thru 20 meters, if I desire.
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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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