when I did field day , it was mostly in a forest of trees back east .
we just used a cheap bow and arrow and shot our sup****t lines up over
tree branches. it worked great , sometimes we'd do one e /w and
another n/ s . the added antenna seemed to be worth the trouble. a
nice resonant dipole is a good dependable antenna.
a push up pole and an inverted vee or one of those G5RV antennas
would do the job nicely. you can get - make a nice multiband vee or
G5RV ( 80 / 40 ) too. you see a lot of people using verticals ,
and I've used them , but I've always had better luck with a full
size dipole , high up in the air , than most verticals I've owned.
I generally use a 10' section of thick walled pvc tubing on the top
of my push up pole to decouple it from the antenna. I run my feed line
well away from the pole as well, for the same reason.
I've never had the chance to try any of those wild new , no ground
radials need , style verticals. maybe one of those would work OK ...
they're pricey and complicated looking ( to assemble ) dunno if field
day is a good place for one of those. for 20 meters and up I've
generally used light weight / smaller sized 3 element wire quads
( 2 elements work well too ) and " killed them " with those .
turned the quad by hand , following the sun path .......
field day is a great time to network with your ham buds ,
to eat barbecue and drink some beer ... er 807s ..........
RF ( make mine CW pse ) , bar-b-cue , 807s and good friends .....
it doesn't get much better than that .............
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:47:27 -0700, "Lumpy"
<lumpy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Wadda ya know about 40m tem****ary field antennas?
>Inverted V? Install in a couple hrs, work for a couple
>days. 100w max.
>
>Lumpy
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