[RTTY] New contester antenna advice

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:57:05 -0500, "Jacob Tennant" <k8jwt at comcast.net> wrote:

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>In short, I live in a valley with 500'+ hills to the East and West of me aka 
>I look straight up to see the tops of them. To the North and South I have 
>slow rises to the horizon.

REPLY:

With hills like that, you are in a bad spot for the higher bands, 14 MHz and up.
From your QTH, most of the DX will be East and West, unfortunately. 

You can have reasonable success on 7 MHz and down though, so that is where I
would concentrate. The longer the wavelength, the less effect the hills will
have.  Having to go up and over the hills, a vertical with its low angle of
radiation would be less successful than a dipole or inverted vee. Being limited
to a single antenna, I believe I would try a trap dipole for your bands of
interest. Good luck and hope to work you soon.

73, Bill W6WRT