[TowerTalk] Hustler mobile resonators dipole

[Scott Fike]

Hi all,

  I recently moved into a townhome that has a very small, postage-stamp 
sized 35' square backyard with no trees or other vertical supports 
whatsoever and we do have some antenna restrictioning covenants to abide 
by..

   With such a small, antenna unfriendly environment, I have settled on the 
idea of small, low-profile HF vertical of some sort.

  Specifically, I have been thinking of using two 80 meter 
Hustler/Newtronics mobile resonators fastened back to back in a dipole 
configuration. Only instead of putting them in the more common horizontal 
configuration, I was wanting to orient them in the vertical position. I 
would put the bottom resonator half of the dipole in a pvc tube for a 
support and stick the whole antenna in the ground with the radiating 
resonator half sticking up in the air and the bottom, shielded dipole half 
still above the ground, but inside the pvc tube, the coaxial cable would 
then feed the antenna in the middle and come out at the usual right angle 
into the house. I would hopefully be using this antenna for low band DX work 
and tune it up with a tuner for the higher bands.

  I settled on the idea of using the Hustler/Newtronics mobile whip 
resonators instead of  the more commonly used hamsticks due to the Hustler 
resonators having a coil in the middle for higher Q (more efficient).

I have a few questions about such an antenna:

1) I'm assuming that orienting this antenna vertically would make it 
vetically polarized. Is this correct?

2) I was also wondering if somebody with some EZNEC modeling experience 
might be willing to model this antenna  for me so I could see what the 
radiation pattern of such a physically small (but electrically long) antenna 
would be like. Specifically, I'm interested in seeing what the angle of 
radiation would be and would it be even remotely low enough angle of attack 
useful for any semblance of DX work at all?

  Yes, I know this is a highly comprimised antenana, but these are the 
conditions under which I face for antennas around here and so I must adapt 
and be flexible or risk not having any antenna at all.

Many Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Scott, KC0BUS

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