I'll look into the chicken wire. I heard about that. That sounds good. I
should be able to run it to the right and left of the terminated end. Stick a
piece of copper in the ground too.. some wires.. a few long ones... :-)
On the feed line I can use some of the same, just not as much is necessary.
Because of my location, I can't put up a 100' tower. I'm using the largest
tree over my wall for the dipoles.
What I can do is install a self-supporting vertical on the back side that isn't
very visible from the street.
Something like this? I have a Henry's Aluminum Coated Roof... I wonder how
that would act as a ground? 60+ gallons put on within that last year. Run a
sprinkler on it for the contests.. hahaha
http://www.cushcraftamateur.com/Product.php?productid=MA-160V
Put an antenna to the left of the hex beam... run some radials over the wall
up the mountain? Copper strap to roof?
Looks like I'm going to play with the Dipole and Beverage for a while and then
probably pull the dipole down and put up something like the MA-160V in the
future?
Use RG-6 line in the future and run another Beverage in the opposite direction
- NW.
The bottom photo shows where I would put it... on left of hex beam. I don't
think Hex would be a problem.. only about 20 feet away though. I can get
Vertical over Hex is needed.
http://www.qrz.com/db/WH7DX
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