TO: Jurgen "Jo" Geldhof ON4BCJ
I would suggest the St. Louis Vertical made from a 20ft telescoping fishing
pole. The site for info is at http://www.fix.net/~jparker/projects.html.
The fishing pole costs $20
I have two of these I made that I use phased or single ops. Collapsed it is
only about 40 inches. There is a W6MMA modification you can get also or make
your own coil. You can get 80-10M coverage with the coil modification. I would
say it is about 75% as effective as an inverted vee for comparisons. On 5
watts I can generally work coast to coast with at least a 559 or 55 sig
report.
I operate a lot of QRP so the antenna has to be efficient and lite weight for
field ops.....Alan KB7MBI
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