Topband: Inv L in Tree

[Brian Campbell]

Ed, Gary and All,

Seeing as I have had my Inverted L ( 85' / 27M  vertical ) against my tree's trunk ( actually touching it - oops ) since I installed it, and as I  also have tress in the elbow, I may have to try and move it out some after reading all the suggested articles. The only reason it is like it is, is for convenience, as I have no towers ( or trees in the right location ) to hang it off of atm so it was either that or no Inverted L.

All I can and will say is that just "anecdotally" speaking and nothing else, it will still work, not as good as one that is stood off a few feet I am sure but better than nothing if it gets you on the air. Or to put it another way, a poor antenna is much better than no antenna at all.

Good Luck and remember YMMV

73,
Brian
VE3MGY






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From: Topband <topband-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com>
Sent: October 3, 2018 9:27 PM
To: Topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Inv L in Tree

Ed,

FWIW, I'm using what used to be an INV-L.
I laid out a radial bed as well as
possible, next to a marsh. I am in a
hurricane area and with the winds, the
trees have fallen over. I originally shot
a line over a tall branch with a spud gun
I made (see it on my QRZ page, at the
bottom), at that time it was an "L".

The branch came down and I used another
branch, albeit farther away. With
attrition, I am now using a tree maybe 30'
away from straight up. Doing it the way I
did allows me to have a radial bed away
from the trunk of a tree. I can't move the
bed so the type of antenna had to change.
I am using WD-1A field telephone wire for
my antennas, with its SS solid core it is
incredibly strong and it is so thin it is
very hard to see.

It's not nearly as good of an antenna as
many here use but it is quite good, even
as a sloper. I was able to work 9X0T on
160 tonight and could barely hear him with
the QRN & RFI but he heard me. Point being
that a sloper works very well on 160, you
don't "have to have" an INV-L.

Whatever you go with, I wouldn't run the
antenna next to the trunk. I would keep it
some distance to the trunk and as long as
you have enough length for radials &
antenna & I'd use some method of getting a
stealthy wire like WD-1A up over & into
the tree-top and down to the radial plate.

73,

Gary
KA1J

> Has anybody snaked a wire up a tall tree trunk to make an Inv L?
>
> Any interaction?  Success??  Has to be stealthy because the tree os
> my neighbor's :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ed NI6S
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