My end fed inverted "L" goes up 20 feet and then out 75 feet, with the far
end about 25' high. It is fed with a homebrew remote controlled tuner (50'
from shack), simple series roller inductor and a parallel capacitor on the
output. Ground system is about 6 pieces of various 20 to 30 foot lengths of
wire, in a sort of random star shape, buried about 2".
It generally outperformed a dipole I had up with an A/B switch to compare
the two. The dipole was 25' up, 65 feet long and fed with ladder line from a
link coupled tuner. The dipole was a tad quieter, but the "L" received and
transmitted maybe an S unit better.
I've read in more than a few places that you need to get the vertical part
as high as possible before it heads on out to the woods.
Bob
KB8TL



"blair thompson" wrote in message
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I have a 63 ft. end-fed wire antenna which I am using with an MFJ-949
versa tuner, and 4 counterpoises cut for 1/4 wave on 15,20, 30 and 40
meters. Far end not very high, about 25 feet up a tree, shot up there
with a slingshot. Pretty thick foliage right now, but not a lot of the
wire is showing and in the clear as the near end of the wire slopes
down almost to ground level (townhome QTH).

Bit of an underperformer, and I was wondering whether it would be
worth my while to install a ground rod in order to ground the tuner,
and whether that might improve matters a bit,

Thanks for any information.
Blair VA7NA