Have the same experience hanging various verticals from trees. I guess if you
have a perfect, non-conducting tree it will work. Unfortunately trees are
somewhat conducting, enough to mess up the radiation.
It will work better if you don't use a tree but a non-conducting support such
as a large plastic pipe. A thicker, self-supporting conductor such as a tube
would also work.
Maybe you get what you pay for.
Best 73 de,
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
To: Towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 8:49 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation
I always wondered why someone would pay $400- $500 for a '43 foot
vertical' when you can hang about $1.50 worth of wire in a tree and do
the same thing.
We had one of those for FD and it was not a very good antenna. 73
Tom W7WHY
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