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Re: Topband: Inv L in Tree

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Subject: Re: Topband: Inv L in Tree
From: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Reply-to: Gary@ka1j.com
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:27:23 -0400
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Ed,

FWIW, I'm using what used to be an INV-L. 
I laid out a radial bed as well as 
possible, next to a marsh. I am in a 
hurricane area and with the winds, the 
trees have fallen over. I originally shot 
a line over a tall branch with a spud gun 
I made (see it on my QRZ page, at the 
bottom), at that time it was an "L". 

The branch came down and I used another 
branch, albeit farther away. With 
attrition, I am now using a tree maybe 30' 
away from straight up. Doing it the way I 
did allows me to have a radial bed away 
from the trunk of a tree. I can't move the 
bed so the type of antenna had to change. 
I am using WD-1A field telephone wire for 
my antennas, with its SS solid core it is 
incredibly strong and it is so thin it is 
very hard to see.

It's not nearly as good of an antenna as 
many here use but it is quite good, even 
as a sloper. I was able to work 9X0T on 
160 tonight and could barely hear him with 
the QRN & RFI but he heard me. Point being 
that a sloper works very well on 160, you 
don't "have to have" an INV-L.

Whatever you go with, I wouldn't run the 
antenna next to the trunk. I would keep it 
some distance to the trunk and as long as 
you have enough length for radials & 
antenna & I'd use some method of getting a 
stealthy wire like WD-1A up over & into 
the tree-top and down to the radial plate. 

73,

Gary
KA1J

> Has anybody snaked a wire up a tall tree trunk to make an Inv L? 
> 
> Any interaction?  Success??  Has to be stealthy because the tree os
> my neighbor's :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed NI6S
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