My QTH is in northern Wisconsin, in the middle of a pine forest, with all
sand soil. My current 80M antenna is an inverted V up about 50 ft in a
pine tree. This works very well for local nets but obviously is not the
right antenna for DX.
I also have a 72ft crank up US Tower, which is supporting a homebrew 40M
rotatable dipole and an M2 LEO pack for satellite operation.
My goal is to be able to get DXCC on 80 meters, using CW and FT8. I can
run up to 1KW.
I understand that a vertical is probably my best choice but when I model a
vertical with my soil conditions, putting an inverted vee up 72 ft on the
tower appears to be almost as good for DX and much better overall.
If I do a vertical, can I run a parallel vertical wire alongside the
tower? How will this interact with the tower? I don't know if it would
work to shunt feed this type of crank up tower?
I have plenty of room for radials in the forest but I can't do anything to
improve the soil conditions in the far field.
I would welcome any recommendations and experiences.
73,
Don K9AQ
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