[TowerTalk] Fw: Question on 80M 4-square amongst trees

[RICHARD BOYD]

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From: RICHARD BOYD 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Question on 80M 4-square amongst trees


Any opinions or actual experience on the performance of an 80M four-square in trees?

Last year I hung a single 80M vertical, 1/4 wavelength, elevated feedpoint, from a 90' (estimated) white oak tree and it
worked very well.  I have now cleared an area on the other side of the tree and could pretty easily add a vertical on
that side that would be/could be identical to the first one, and with a little effort I could probably make it four verticals
with the correct spacing, all four supported by the same tree, with the tree in the middle.

How do you think this will do compared to a four-square made of aluminum tubing (or channel, which I have some of) out
in the middle of a field?

73 - Rich, KE3Q