[UK-CONTEST] 28MHz 5/8th wave antenna

[Darren Collins (G0TSM)]

Unless you live on a salt marsh or on an estuary then as high a 
practical is best. You can't beat the 'traditional' scaffold pole 
installation! :-)

73 Darren G0TSM

On 10/11/2012 15:40, John MacLean MM0CCC wrote:
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> Loss of our usual club site for [HF] means I now need to do any 
> planned CQWW CW/ARRL DX entry from home this year.  Even on 10m, a 
> yagi is probably a no-go due to telephone wires crossing my garden so 
> instead I plan to stick up a 5/8th vertical instead.
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> Just looking for some opinions on whether this would be better mounted 
> at ground level or would perform better higher.  I can probably get 
> the base of the antenna to about 25' if needed.  I'm not overly 
> concerned about Sp-E to EU as I should manage that anyway, more 
> thinking about long-haul DX and also close-in stations on backscatter.
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> 73
> John MM0CCC
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