Fred N3CSY asked: I'm another limited space, restricted community ham (for now). I've been considering different types of verticals which might be best. I THINK, I'm looking for an antenna which:
- vertical ? - no radials - no counterpoises - no guy-wires - 40 thru 10 - maybe 4 shorter buried radials (if I must) - not a lot of "visual" space, for neighbors We have a MOBILE Home (mostly plastic, and wood) - which sits on a slab of concrete, surrounded by 8x8 wood timers, 2 feet high on front side of mobile. Can easily get UNDER mobile, thru removable siding. Park owner, OK'd a "marine antenna" - whatever that means to him. We live on shore of St. Lawrence River - Canada in the distance. What commercial or home-made antenna could suit my bill? ########################################### I saw these vertical antennas at the Dayton Hamvention this year. This might be what you are after. Very nice built, not very tall, and they don't seem that they would be likely to attract a lot of attention from other home owners. Very low optical impact on the neighbors in other words. No guy wires, but would need some radials, which are included in the kit. I am thinking about getting one of these myself. http://www.dxengineering.com/Products.asp?ID=216&SecID=115&DeptID=22 You will need some radials for anything that is going to work fairly well and not be very tall. Otherwise a vertical end fed 1/2 wave dipole would probably be the only no radial thing you would be able to come up with, and they will be fairly tall for 20M and on to lower freqs. 73 Arnie KA0NCR __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
