Is he limited to a vertical? If not (and I hope not) a long dipole as high as
he can get it should work quite well. I have had a lot of success with
open-wire fed antennas of many configurations at that height. 200 or so feet of
center-fed wire works miracles, and currently I use a 250 foot closed
horizontal loop that does quite well on many bands. I need a tuner, of course.
The old tank-circuit style works very well, although you have to manually tune
it, or a auto-tuner with balun (fed with as short of coax as possible) also
works very well.
The trick here is to get something in the air and experiment with it to get the
best results. And while he is at it, try it on the higher bands. 200' of wire
as described above can put a very sharp signal somewhat off the ends on 10
meters. You might be surprised at how well this sort of antenna works.
Jack , W6FB
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> My son KC2PWX is looking for a solution to a 80 meter antenna, problem is he
> has about 30-35 vertical feet he can go. He is using a ground mounted 5btv
> but is is awful on 80. Any idea?
>
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> John J. Nistico
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