[CQ-Contest] If you could only have one simple antenna...?

[Rudy Bakalov]

Hi Pete,
It's great that you do want to stay active despite your constraints.
How about a fan verticals? That is, verticals for various bands that share a common base, a balun, and radial system? As you know verticals are excellent on the low bands due to their low take off angle.

Rudy N2WQ
      From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>
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 Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:03 PM
 Subject: [CQ-Contest] If you could only have one simple antenna...?
   
I'm a fairly serious but second-tier contester who's getting old, and we 
have just moved to Baltimore County, MD for family medical reasons.  
Tower and antenna rules here are pretty reasonable, but I have other 
constraintswhich will pretty much limit me to one antenna, and probably 
to wires.  I'd still like to play in Sweepstakes and dabble in DX 
contests. Given the state of the sunspot cycle, a lot of that is likely 
to be on the lower bands.

So, if you were in my shoes, what would you put up?

73, Pete N4ZR

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