"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

If there are no trees for support, and you say you have
a rotating tower, do you have room for a couple of poles
or stakes........say, 10-12 feet high? I know it would be
somewhat "unsightly" (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but an inverted
Vee would do pretty well on
75. I had a 75 dipole at one of my prior residences that
drooped down to 10' and it worked better than I expected. So if you could
droop a V down off the tower
(the whole thing doesn't turn does it?) it would work. There are also some
ways you can make a loaded vertical to hang under a tree/tower--saw that in
QST a few years back. A bit of experimenting, but a good project which,
according to the author, got some pretty
good results. Sloper off the tower? And then you
could put a screwdriver at the top to work all bands and
put radials underneath--saw that method, again, in one of
the ham rags where a series of wires of different lengths
were positioned in a circle like a bird cage with a home-
brew vertical at top. Lots of ideas. I don't know how they work (haven't
had to try it). If you get out and "putter" with it, you'll come up with
something.

Now if you need a help with a screwdriver, just let me know
(www.qsl.net/k4kwh) .

73

Jerry
K4KWH