Hi Tony et al.
I think that is the best idea for a camper antenna.
I have an 80 foot center fed with 300 ohm twin lead and it works great on
all bands. I use a slingshot to get a line over a tree limb to put it up.
If there is not enough room between the supports, I just wind the excess
wire up on a 2-liter pop bottle to take up the slack. Doesn't seem to hurt
the operation of the antenna any doing that. I use an MFJ tuner to tune it.
I also have 3 pieces of PVC pipe that I carry with me to make a mast if
there are no trees around.
At one time I also had a Hustler mobile antenna on my trailer. With the 80
meter resonator, I found if I unscrewed the resonator, hooked a 60 foot
piece of wire UNDER the resonator and tightened it back down, that really
gave the signal a boost and made the SWR a lot better over a wider area (you
have to adjust the length of the wire for a particular frequency). If I
hooked the wire to the top of the whip, it just messed up everything. It
would probably work on other bands using the correct length of wire under
the resonator. 73
Tom WWHY
>
> I use a 33 foot fiberglass pole (from Jackite) to support the center of an
> inverted Vee cut for 20 meters. I simply tape the pole to the ladder with
> electrical tape. One leg of the Vee is tied with kite string to the
> driver's side rear view mirror. The other leg goes to a nearby tree
> branch. The antenna can be set up or taken down in 5 minutes. It is short
> enough that I just wind it all up on a plastic soda bottle. I feed this
> with small diameter coax to a LDG Z-100 tuner at the rig. I can tune this
> up on anything from 80 thru 10 meters. It doesn't require a ground plane
> to the vehicle and is basically a balanced antenna. It works much better
> than the screwdriver antenna.
>
> -Tony, K1KP
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