On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:29:26 EST, Foxs Mercantile
wrote:

"But I don't have room for a dipole"
Then you don't have room for radials either and your vertical won't
work.

Tell that to my Cushcraft R-8 vertical, which after I sold it, was
well on the way to filling in the DXCC gaps of the new owner.

The only thing about it that didn't "work" was it wasn't a good NVIS
antenna for 80 metres, and that's where a wire 8 feet above ground
worked really well. Then again, Cushcraft specs the antenna as 40
metres and down.

The reason that I sold it is that there are limits on what I can put
up in the rental apartment complex here. Right now I only have 2 v/u
j-poles, 2 mag-mount 2-metre ground planes, a helical amplified HF RX
antenna made for SWL-ing, a sort-of-j-pole for vhf/uhf monitoring, and
a 30-foot "stealth" wire from a matching net on the porch out to the
trees.

Where there's a will there's a way.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon