At 06:59 PM 3/23/97 +0000, Brian K. Short KE7GH wrote:
>Living on a small lot in a city with height restrictions,
>my antennas are limited and especially so for the lower
>HF amateur bands (160/80m). While 160m DXCC may be out
>of my current reach, I do enjoy the band on CW during the
>winter. One of my current goals, however, is the 5BDXCC
>lacking only completion of 10m and 80m (only 37).
Brian, I'm in the same boat as you. Live on a normal dinky
city lot and have no room for a tower. Again, like you, one
of my goals is 5BDXCC. I had 15,20 & 40 covered and there's
not much I can do about 10 until the next solar cycle. I just
completed DXCC on 80m using a Butternut HF6V on my one story
roof with whatever radials I could fit. It's definitely not
an ideal situation, it's noisy as heck and it will never get
me WAZ on 80m but with a lot of all nighters and perseverance,
it finally paid off. I'm also only running about 500w so that's
a problem also. Good luck with whatever you use as a solution,
it feels great when it's done!!
73 de Terry KK6T
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