[TowerTalk] Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation

[Tom Osborne]

On 4/8/2014 4:25 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> I just read the Joel Hallas, W1ZR article - "The 43 foot vertical monopole
> - What's the magic?".  It was very interesting!  The coax losses are worse
> than I imagined, up to 8dB though 100 feet of RG-213, and as my model
> showed the radiation is very high above 20m.  Certainly a relay to
> electrically shorten the antenna would help 15m and 10m.
>
> John KK9A


I always wondered why someone would pay $400- $500 for a '43 foot 
vertical' when you can hang about $1.50 worth of wire in a tree and do 
the same thing.

We had one of those for FD and it was not a very good antenna.  73
Tom W7WHY