[TowerTalk] 4 Square in the future?

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,12/27/2015 1:00 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> Any thought or links to topics that might help will be appreciated.

Your objective requires a LOT of research. It can be VERY tough to find 
an RF-quiet QTH -- even living in the boonies, neighbors have noisy 
power supplies for lighting, noisy appliances, etc. and power lines can 
be noisy. You can buy/build in the middle of nowhere, and 5-10 years 
later find a subdivision at your property line. That's happened to at 
least two superstations I know of. I have 8.5 acres, my nearest 
neighbors are about 250 ft from my antennas, and I have more noise every 
month or so.

You'll need to study carefully any zoning or county building 
restrictions. And you'll have to avoid any sub-divisions, which will be 
both noisy and have restrictions that will make life miserable.

You'll need to STUDY antennas a LOT. Start with the ARRL Antenna Book 
and the ON4UN Book (the latter especially for 160, 80, and 40M antennas 
and propagation). Big trees are very good, because they're inexpensive 
supports for wire antennas. But you'll need to pay professionals to 
climb them, which ain't cheap.

There are several tutorials about planning for antennas on my website.  
k9yc.com/publish.htm  including one dedicated to 160M. Almost everything 
on it applies to 80M, but scaled by a factor of 1/2.

73, Jim K9YC