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It is a good choice. No doubt. But at that height above the ground I think a 1/4 GP would have been equally good, and easier to carry up the tree if the radials were attached after climbing up into the tree. Thinner package to get up there. Don't fall down.

Thanks. I'll see what I can find.

You're being a very nice person. I'm happy knowing that you're my friend.

If you're a careful gardener, you could grow real ivy on it. Put the vertical in a bucket, and ground plane in the grass.

I've got the imperfect/ugly down pat.

The K1JJ looks to be fond of multiple capacitors...

Yes. That's the idea.

Ahh, yes, I like a good pair of Italian shoes. I prefer beans and beef on my tortillas.

Does anyone unbox it in English? I haven't used Italian in nearly 66 years... oh, wait, that's my age.

Strips of Spa Hose from Home Depot (sells by the foot) and hot glue. It's the K1JJ I am thinking to do. Because I only have 100w I figure the copper wire will work for me instead of tubing.

I have finally began putting together my manual tuner. I rolled those two inductors about 3 years ago. I got busy, and sidetracked. Now, I've just mounted them on the board. I know, primitive, but what else do I do... What I will likely need is some of you who've made your own to offer tips...

That's it. Gotta hand it to him. The cans-antenna was a lotta work, and pretty cool.

I don't know... My chicken wire 11m 1/4 GP seemed to be the uncontested winner in one of these build offs until the other fellow screwed together his 1/4 GP from beer cans. It seems the popularity of beer over chickens took the win away from me. It felt like a crappy sudden death NFL overtime...

Git ur dun.

As for which antenna is better, it's like girlfriends, the current one is always the best. In most, if not all antenna setups it has much more to do with the installation than the particular antenna itself.

Per Tom Rouch, W8JI This is the link to the 5/8th wave article we were all discussing. As I recall, the disputed statements in the article were: 1.) Gain of a 5/8th wave over a quarter waves is not 4dB. Without an infinite flat ground plane at antenna base height, like a sheet, a 5/8th...

Before my brand new NanoVNA-H4 broke off CH0 SMA terminal from the board I managed to get a SWR reading from the radio shack end of the coax for the fan dipole. 144 ------------- 1.1 148 -------------- 1.12 222 --------------- 1.59 225 ‐--------------- 1.64 420 ----------------- 1.11 450...

Neither is there a ton of traffic here, but a local repeater just went up, and one or two more are planned in the area. One of them is supposed to get us into a linked system for broader interstate comm. Just following the fun.

Actually, the radios do not replace a band with 11m, they are expanded to include 11m. I would get an expandable 10m radio.