For a number of years while I lived in a townhouse I used an inverted-V
fan in the trees behind the house with 10M, 20M and 40M elements. The
40M elements had W9INN coils near the ends to permit 80-meter
operation. The woods had more than one unlikely heavy object (like box
wrenches and even, sadly, a roll of solder) permanently suspended by
their throwing lines from branches.
That said, I'm a convert to the Carolina Windom type of OCF dipole. I
think it may be a function of the radiating vertical segment of feedline
(above the line isolater) , but it really plays on 80 and 40. One
caution, though - it's unusable on 15 meters.
73, Pete N4ZR
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