[TowerTalk] Vertical?

[Rick Bullon]

I have a Butternut as my only antenna. I used it for quite a while with 
NO radials, it worked fine but it swr were a little high. I have seen it 
bent over passed 45 degrees in a storm and it came right back to 
vertical after the storm passed.
  I can say it works FB on 10 meters as I am a Tech+ and work 10 SSB all 
the time.
  I have just recently put 4 radials cut for 10 meters on mine and the 
swr is flat on 10. I also used it on the MARS nets just above 4 MHZ with 
a tuner.
  Bottom line it is durable simple and works with no or minimal radials.
73
Rick
KC5AJX
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>I like the Butternut verticles.  yes, they work better with a ground 
plane,
>but I have used them with an 8 foot ground rod.  Worked well.  I've 
also
>used the copper pipe plumbing in the house as a ground plane also and 
worked
>well.  Again, short radials are better than no radials.
>
>The Butternut verticles can take a lot of abuse, are well constructed, 
and
>seem to radiate well.  Although there are traps (big ones) the antenna 
works
>very well on 40-20 and 15.  Ten meters is OK, but haven't used it since 
1990
>on that band.  80 is very narrow as you might guess.
>
>The person can also mount it on the roof and place radials on the roof, 
but
>that might not be an option.
>
>Lee 
>k0wa@southwind.net
>
>
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