[TowerTalk] Good vacation antenna

[Jack Brindle]

DX Engineering sells the Hustler 5BTV (40-10) and 6BTV (80-10) antennas. I have no experience with them, but do with the 14AVQ. Mine played extremely well in Miami whether it had radials or not. It played poorly everywhere else I have tried it.

Glad to see you haven’t disappeared completely. We miss you on the air! Hope things are going well.

73,
Jack, W6FB

> On Jul 3, 2025, at 9:37 AM, cqtestk4xs--- via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
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> I'm no longer in a QTH where I can put up a tower, or for that matter, any antenna.  So I am planning on doing some operating when we camp out.
> I'm looking at a multi-band vertical that can be attached to the tent camper tongue framework (temporarily).  I want the antenna to cover 40-10 mtrs, easily set up and take dpown and can be collpsed to roughly 6 ft sections.  The old 14 AVQ would be pwerfect but is no longer made.
> Any ideas?
> Bill K4XS/V31XX
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