[Antennas] 2 trees 150' apart 60' high

Thu Jun 2 16:17:55 EDT 2005

Before the ice storm took it down this January, I had antenna held up by two
pines over 150' high. Unfortunately because of limbs on other trees the
height of my antenna was only about 65 -75 feet or so. There was no real
problem and I had great signal reports when it was up. I ran a three
element parallel dipole with 80, 40 and 20 meters on it. It was made with
#14 wire and held up with mason's twine. Elements were separated with PVC
spacers spaced about 4 feet apart keeping the wires about 6-8 inches apart
parallel.
I always left some slack in the string but when I knew weather would be bad,
I would loosen it more. I sometimes operated on a non-inverted "V" antenna.
Other times it would fluctuate from V to dipole and back. 
It was great while it lasted for 18 months or so.
Buck
N4PGW
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:antennas-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lefczik, Larry D
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: Antennas at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Antennas] 2 trees 150' apart 60' high
>> I have 2 pin trees about 150' apart and about 60' tall, about 200 feet
> of #10 insulated stranded wire and 100' of 450 Ohm ladder line. My
> tuner has a balanced line input and I also have a 1:1 balun handy. I
> also have 50 and 75 Ohm coax cable.
>> I am looking for all band operation, but with the way bands are now I
> probably should concentrate on 75-20 Meters.
>> My thought is 150' dipole fed by ladder line to the tuner is the best
> use of the space.
> Would a 125' 75 Meter dipole with the balun at the feed point and coax
> feed be a better choice?
> I had a G5RV up for many years but one leg broke about a foot from an
> end insulator, should I just fix/shorten that antenna and put it back
> up?
>> Any ideas?
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