Topband: small antennas

[wa5pok at peoplepc.com]

> How many of you operate topband with small antennas? 

Hi Dave,

When I first visited the top band to see what it would be like, I built 
the "UG" antenna described in the Vertical Antenna Handbook by 
Paul Lee, N6PL. With this small antenna, 25' high, I worked most of 
NA and a bit of the Caribbean and the northern part of SA with it 
with 200 watts output (from Houston). I used four 50' by 4' lengths of 
chicken wire under it for a ground system. It hooked me on the band 
before moving on to larger antennas and an amp for the band.

I have the pages scanned and can e-mail to anyone to further 
scrutinize this thing. I wouldn't mind seeing a model of it. It was easy 
to build and tune to get started, seems the bandwith was only about 
20kHz.

73, Mike WA5POK