[TowerTalk] Fwd: Fwd: Hustler 6-BTV installation

[Hans Hammarquist]

Have the same experience hanging various verticals from trees. I guess if you have a perfect, non-conducting tree it will work. Unfortunately trees are somewhat conducting, enough to mess up the radiation.


It will work better if you don't use a tree but a non-conducting support such as a large plastic pipe. A thicker, self-supporting conductor such as a tube would also work.


Maybe you get what you pay for.



Best 73 de,


Hans - N2JFS



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com>
To: Towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 8:49 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd:  Hustler 6-BTV installation


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

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