Don't know what you mean by weak, my HS5 (mounted on top a 14' base pole,
with a total antenna height of 40'. It is mounted in a surveyors tripod. It
has withstood winds up to 75mph with out guying. Works great on all bands
(using a simple tuner. Plan on adding on a additional 10 more feet of base,
and I the will guy the base pole at 23'. There will be three guys, one
affixed to each tripod leg anchor.

Butternut makes good tripods, but a lot depends on how the user puts them
together. You got to have radials and a good ground.

Jim


"Fjx1" wrote in message
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I can't run wires on my property( no trees and tower rotates). I've used a
^btv
for years with usual weak results on 80. LAways thought Butternut was
weakly
made.

What is recommendation out there?
Butternut
Gap
Force sigma for 80 know very little about it they don't answer e-mails
MFK

??? other ideas
Really want 80 and 160 would be great bonus.

73
Gerry


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You got me. What is an HS5? Not familiar with that model.

Tks Gerry

You got me! Instead of HS, it should be HF5. I also should have given the
full model number HF5-Il, which covered 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10-meters. I
have added coils, as needed for the for the other bands. Rolled them myself
using aluminum fence wire (.25" dia), same diameter that butternut uses. All
the aluminum tubing is original.

Jim

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You got me. What is an HS5? Not familiar with that model.

Tks Gerry



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