I have had a Zero-Five 43 ft vertical for the past few years. I have plenty of space around the vertical and have 57 radials of 33 to 43 feet. I run 100 watts, mostly work 40 and 30, but occasionally
I will be installing a SGC-237 remote tuner at the base of my 43 ft. vertical. I would like to add a common-mode choke at the base as part of the install. I built but haven't used, a bifilar choke wi
I ordered a Hustler 6-BTV trap vertical to replace an existing installation of a 43 foot vertical. I have 60 radials from 30 to 60 feet long with a DX Engineering radial plate. The antenna is fed wit
Thanks for all the comments. After trying several brands of remote tuners and having various bands not tune on all of them, I opted to a switch to a trap antenna, the 6-BTV. I am a patient guy and ha
I installed a 6-BTV vertical about a year ago. It is ground-mounted with about 60 radials and fed with Bury-Flex coax. I felt that the SWR was where I needed it. Over the winterI saw a shift in the S
I do have a local AM station about 3 miles away but only 2500 watts daytime and 500 at night. They are off from midnight to 6:00AM and I did check the antenna with the AIM during quiet hours with no
I have a vertical with 60 radials installed over time. All were staked to the ground with DX Engineering radial stakes or the U-shaped landscape cloth pins. I even use a few home-brew stakes made fro