AC0C is a funny guy.
At the risk of overstating the obvious, we get pretty harsh wx up here in NB
as well. I daresay worse than NY even at times.
Even if I could afford it (and I surely can't), I wouldn't DREAM of
installing a 80m beam, lest it be eventually need to be 'mowed around' (per
AC0C, hi-good one Jeff)
I've had my low-cost 'all-wire' 80m 4-square up 3 yrs or so and other than
to occasionally repair a broken wire, it's been pretty robust. It's made
from 4 inverted L's hanging off a variety of trees, 2 raised radials per
element, on very sloping, rocky ground, no ferrites on the coax, but
surprisingly seems to work (and work well). ('They just want to work' -
K1TTT)
YMMV
Mike VE9Antenna Antenna
CU (all of sudden) this weekend.anyone outside W/VE pse
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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