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Hey, here's a question for you antenna heads..... I've googled and not found
much but a million opinions and ideas on which is better so I thought I'd come here and lay out the situation and get some advice. I want to put an HF radio back in the house. I only have a small yard and pesky neighbors. I want to operate ham and MARS freqs. I need to be somewhat incognito. A tower is out, and a big vertical is questionable. I don't like the radial issue as I live on solid rock, nor the price issues. My only option is to go out back... zero yard but a hillside that is almost limitless, however; I live on top of a ridge so the hills all go downward. I'm assuming a long wire in the treetops or similar is my only hope. [very few trees are higher than my house up here, LOL] SO... if you only had one direction to throw an antenna out, but could arrow a 300 footer through the treetops if need be, what would you do? Which style antenna would be best? Random or folded or ? I'm assuming end-fed is my only option here, with only one direction to go. [Southerly] I'm considering a manual tuner in the shack, or auto-tuner like a marine unit that I could remote in the attic and coax up to it then wire to outside. Is there a better way?? Ideas? Input? thanks for the help! Woody |
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