[Antennas] Random wire in a tree

Sun, 9 Mar 2003 18:33:00 EST

In a message dated 3/9/2003 4:28:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
> If I were to toss a line over a rather tall pine tree in my yard and pull a 
> random wire up over the tree to use as an end fed antenna what effect would 
> the tree apt to have on it ?
>> Thanks and 73,
>> Bert W1DFU
>>Bert,
I have a 185 ft wire run through and across 3 trees and have found that the 
trees don't seem to have any effect on my wire. It is 25 ft higher then my 
G5RV and is consistently 2 "S" units better on RX (12 db) then the G5RV on 
all bands but 15 mtrs where the tuner I am using, a B & W Model VS300A won't 
tune it. I put this up in hopes of being able to tune in 160 mtrs and use 
PSK on that band. It works Great there and has become my favorite antenna 
for 75, 40 and 30 mtrs. So to summarize it does not seem to have an effect 
here but this is the only way I have had one up.
73 and Good Luck
Sandor KG4FET 
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